Air Quotes - Page 22

• And by another year,
  Such as God knows, with freer air,
  More fruits and fairer flowers
  Will bear,
  While I droop here.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Flower, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.129, Penguin

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• In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Successful, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2474, Delphi Classics

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• Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Running, Giving, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Dance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Missing, India, Madness

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• All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Рипол Классик

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• Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

  Mason Cooley

  Rich, Behavior, Poor

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• After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Reading, Men, Light

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• The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Snakes, Desert, Treasure

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.16, Rutgers University Press

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• I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Dream, Lying, Islands

  Mary Hunter Austin (1985). “A Woman of Genius”, p.239, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Animal, Four Elements, Different

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 5,

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• Fir : it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fire, Flames, Class

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 6, c. 15 BC.

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• At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Smell, Feet, Atmosphere

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• Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.

  Paul Samuelson

  School, Men, Investing

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• Young Dandelion
  On a hedge-side
  Said young Dandelion
  Who'll be my bride?
  Said young Dandelion
  With a sweet air,
  I have my eye on
  Miss Daisy fair.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sweet, Eye, Missing

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• There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Men, Eagles

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 18), 1895.

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• A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Husband, Practice, Indulge In

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• Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

  Edith M. Thomas

  Hope, Heaven, Done

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• In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Grace, Portraits, Add

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.83

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• When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Truth, Lips, Breathe

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• To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Health, Doctors

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. True, "not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Heavenly Father's knowledge," but they do fall, nevertheless.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Lying, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.236

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• A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blow, Order, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.416, Harvard University Press

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• There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Stars, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.

  Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

  Book, Men, Interesting

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