Yellow Quotes - Page 13

• In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Cat, Next Day, Doors

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.44, University of Toronto Press

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• I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

  Paul Ince

  Soccer, Football, Purple

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• In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars,
  In floating, curling sprays,
  The golden flower comes shining though the woods
  These February days;
  Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town,
  To bring her gayly in,
  This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida -
  The yellow jessamine.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Sweet, Stars, Flower

  Clare Benedict, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1930*). “Five Generations (1785-1923): Being Scattered Chapters from the History of the Cooper, Pomeroy, Woolson and Benedict Families, with Extracts from Their Letters and Journals, as Well as Articles and Poems by Constance Fenimore Woolson”

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• Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle--almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.

  Matthew Quick

  Blue, People, Flags

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

  Hermann Hesse (2017). “Siddhartha”, p.31, Youcanprint

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• Through my curtains I can see a big yellow moon. I’m thinking of all the people in the world who will be looking at that same moon. I wonder how many of them haven’t got any eyebrows?

  Louise Rennison

  Thinking, Moon, Eyebrows

  Louise Rennison (2013). “The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around like a clotheshorse with a lot of very green trees or very yellow wheat or very blue ocean rolling away for miles and miles in every direction.

  Sylvia Plath

  Hate, Ocean, Blue

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.23, Hamilton Books

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• It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Flower, Sunshine, Thinking

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Stars, Children, Father

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.85, Chosen Books

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• After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Autumn, Jewels, Color

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• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Long

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How many times do I love, again?
  Tell me how many beads there are
  In a silver chain
  Of evening rain
  Unravelled from the trembling main
  And threading the eye of a yellow star:-
  So many times do I love again.

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes, “Song From Torrismond”

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• Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but by the evening the reds loose their piquancy, embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow flowers remain bright, and white ones become luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background.

  Rosemary Verey

  Change, Morning, Flower

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• My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Gay, Wind, Sky

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.13

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• The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Morning, Book, Optimism

  "Brown : The Last Discovery of America". Book by Richard Rodriguez, 2003.

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• I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.

  Eva Longoria

  Mom, Color, Eggs

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• I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Ice, Nuclear, Submarines

  "Traveling with the Stars: Buzz Aldrin". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I liked fetching the washing from the Moscrops', and my mother liked washing for Mrs. Moscrop better than for anyone else. That was because Mrs. Moscrop wrapped a bar of yellow soap in with the washing. There wasn't anyone else who thought of a thing like that.

  Howard Spring

  Mother, Book, Bars

  Howard Spring (2016). “My Son, My Son”, p.11, Head of Zeus

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• Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Country, People, Lines

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• The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Ideas, Squares, Blue

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• Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

  Flora Thompson

  Sunshine, Purple, Gold

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.

  George Hamilton

  Football, Europe, Cards

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• The gatherd storme is rype; the bigge drops falle;The forswat meadowes smethe, and drenche the raine;The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall,And the full flockes are drivynge ore the plaine;Dashde from the cloudes the waters flott againe;The welkin opes; the yellow levynne flies;And the hot fierie smothe in the wide lowings dies.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Water, Hot, Cattle

  Thomas Chatterton (1842). “Poetical Works: With Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters and Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.141

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• Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Crazy, Reading, Years

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.19, e-artnow

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• Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.

  Stephen Crane

  Father, War, Kind

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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