Golden Quotes - Page 39

• Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Blue, Views

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1901). “The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

  Homer

  Heaven, Links, Influence

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• The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.

  Philip James Bailey

  Death, Kings, Flower

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.445

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• With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

  Alice Cary

  Work, Heart, Men

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164

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• Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Wine, Moon

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.131

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• Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

  Jean Ingelow

  Ocean, Land, Lovely

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “Poems”, p.300

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• The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Past, Race, Vision

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• Golden is a surface colour.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Surface, Colour

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Thumbs, Honest

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1881). “The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes by E.F. Willoughby”

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• Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Azure, Violet, Sun

  Ebenezer Elliott (1834). “Elliott's Poems: The village patriarch, Love, and other poems”, p.284

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• I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Humanity, Age, World

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• Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

  Helen Dunmore

  Country, Delight, Literature

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• There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!

  Steven Hill

  People, Dating, Firsts

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• The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes

  Ian McShane

  Water, Shrimp, Champagne

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• The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Honor, Movement, Badges

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• I'll always be a Golden Eagle

  Dwyane Wade

  Eagles

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• Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.

  Charles Elachi

  Adventure, Space, Age

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• It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Sunset, Autumn, Heaven

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• David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Thinking, Talking, Quiet

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• And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.

  Lawren Harris

  Running, Light, White

  Lawren Harris, Gregory Betts (2007). “In the Ward: His Urban Poetry and Paintings”, p.51, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Autumn, Lakes, Green Fields

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Thanksgiving, Sweet, Lying

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

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• Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

  Edmondo De Amicis

  Istanbul, Sea, Bosphorus

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• I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Flying, Monsters

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cities, Arms, Information

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