Bark Quotes - Page 11

• The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Men, Age, Silver

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• Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lying, Years, Circles

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.169, A&C Black

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• We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

  Freya Stark

  Tree, Magic, Sap

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.170, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

  William Gilmore Simms

  Moon, Sea, Sailing

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• Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth
  The Sabbath resting comes,
  Gathering the sons of toil and care
  Back to their peaceful homes;
  And, like a portal to the skies,
  Opens the House of God,
  Where all who seek may come and learn
  The way the Saviour trod.
  But holier to the wanderer seems
  The Sabbath on the deep,
  When on, and on, in ceaseless course,
  The toiling bark must keep,
  And not a trace of man appears
  Amid the wilderness
  Of waters--then it comes like dove
  Direct from heaven to bless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Home, Son, Men

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• Tis reason's part
  To govern and to guard the heart,
  To lull the wayward soul to rest,
  When hopes and fears distract the breast;
  Reason may calm this doubtful strife,
  And steer thy bark through various life.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Heart, Soul, May

  Nathaniel Cotton (1812). “The Poetical Works of Nathaniel Cotton: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.77

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• Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Only the man of faith is the man of power. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. God grant that to-day in that bark we may be wafted by God's blessing, and may land at last on the shores of Heaven, where we shall sing a sweeter Te Deum than that which awoke the echoes on the soil of virgin America, or those amid the splendors of the court at Barcelona.

  Robert Stuart MacArthur

  Blessing, Men, Echoes

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• Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tombstone, Past, Long

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• I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - these people are cockroaches and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.

  Mark Collett

  Dog, Hate, Cat

  "Retrial begins of BNP leaders accused of stirring racial hatred" by Martin Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
  [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]

  George Herbert

  Dog, Giving, Ifs

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• Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.

  Jose Mourinho

  Dog, Caravans

  "José Mourinho: 'Chelsea did everything that champions need to do'" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2015.

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• The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Art, Perfect

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• I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.

  Shirley Jackson

  Struggle, Thinking, Feet

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Beach, Dog, Prayer

  Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing

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• Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

  Walter E. Williams

  Dog, Cat, Government

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• Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

  Heraclitus

  Dog, Persons, Knows

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• [If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Years, Long

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• We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• Leaves and bark, leaves and bark,
  To lean against and hear in the dark.
  Petals I may have once pursued.
  Leaves are all my darker mood.

  Robert Frost

  Dark, May, Mood

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• What's the point of fighting the dollars
  when all you need is a warm bed?
  When the dog barks you let him in.
  All we need is someone to let us in.
  And one other thing:
  to consider the lilies in the field.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Dog, Fighting

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Stars, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

  Lord Byron

  Money, Gold, Credit

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• A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

  Bob Marley

  Dog, Bird, Flying

  Song: Jah Live

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• Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

  Christopher Morley

  Wise, Dog, Dark

  Christopher Morley (1944). “The Middle Kingdom: Poems, 1929-1944”, [New York] : Harcourt, Brace

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• Each dog barks in his own yard!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Yards

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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