Golden Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Boys, Bed

  Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.131, Kent State University Press

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• The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

  Emma Lazarus

  Space, Light, Eagles

  Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press

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• Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

  John Milton

  Keys, Hands, Palaces

  'Comus' (1637) l. 12

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• Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

  William Cowper

  Truth Is, Girdles, Globes

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.97

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• My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

  John Dryden

  Dream, Love And Friendship, Whole Life

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 5.

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• Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

  Lucy Larcom

  Army, Men, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1881). “Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems”

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• I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.

  Red Auerbach

  Player, Personality, Teammate

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• When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

  Mary Howitt

  Autumn, White, Joy

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• The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

  James G. Frazer

  Kings, Woods, Temples

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.

  James G. Frazer

  Art, Men, Order

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Weed, Dream, Winter

  'Hellas' (1822) l. 1060

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• O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God! To spread, where'er thy golden feet have trod, The benediction of His grace divine: To hold the promise of His final plan Blazing before the eyes of human-kind, And, at thy setting, leave His love enshrined Anew in the reminded heart of man!

  Guy Wetmore Carryl

  Christmas, Eye, Heart

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• Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Weed, Spring

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• The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Sea, Age

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Dream, Dark

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• The Golden Rule works like gravitation.

  Charles Fletcher Dole

  Golden Rule, Gravitation

  "Cleveland Address". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.

  Mariah Carey

  Girl, Real, Believe

  Song: Looking In, Album: Daydream, 1995

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• No such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world - a testimony to its universality.

  Michael Shermer

  Lying, Foundation, World

  Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.64, Macmillan

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• History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Jobs, Home, Ambition

  "Lessons in Foreign Intervention". news.bbc.co.uk. June 11, 2007.

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• For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Yesterday, Hands, Humanity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Home, Past, People

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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