Larks Quotes

• There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Two, Justice

  A Book of Nonsense (1846)

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• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

  Edmund Waller

  Lying, Humble, Nests

  Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”

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• If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

  Francois Rabelais

  Attitude, Fall, Opportunity

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• The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Littles, Soar

  1856 Aurora Leigh, bk.3.

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• Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Bird

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• To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

  John Milton

  Night, Sky, Singing

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.139, Pearson Education

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards.
  Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow.
  At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens.
  Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Heart, Eagles

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Fall, Dark

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• In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

  John McCrae

  Blow, Gun, Sky

  Punch 8 Dec. 1915 "In Flanders Fields"

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• God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

  Robert Browning

  Spring, Heaven, World

  Pippa Passes pt. 1 (1841)

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• None but the lark so shrill and clear;
  Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
  The morn not waking till she sings.

  John Lyly

  Wings, Heaven, Waking

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.117, Psychology Press

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• No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

  Shirley Jackson

  Life, Reality, Long

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.34, Penguin

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• When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Children, Ice Cream

  Eudora Welty, Pearl Amelia McHaney (2009). “Occasions: Selected Writings”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

  Nicholas Breton

  Bed, Lambs

  'The Court and Country' (1618) para. 8

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• Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

  Edmund Burke

  Sky, Soul, Thee

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.3

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• Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.

  Joe Shuster

  Fun, Character, Artist

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• The larks, still bravely singing, fly
  Scarce heard amid the guns below

  John McCrae

  Gun, Singing, Poppies

  'In Flanders Fields' (1915)

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• Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Loving What You Do, Giving

  Source: www.lenalamoray.com

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• When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

  Lewis Carroll

  Gay, Sharks, Voice

  Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.62, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

  Jerry Reed

  Running, Car, Georgia

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• There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

  Jacques Rigaut

  People, Charity, Littles

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• So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Death, Taken, Heart

  'Margaritae Sororis' (1888)

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• Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world

  Robert Browning

  Song, Morning, Spring

  Pippa Passes pt. 1 (1841)

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• And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

  John Milton

  Song, Nests, Approach

  John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton”, p.72

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