Bells Quotes - Page 7

• We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the war, so we have no idea of the exact time, either night or day.

  Anne Frank

  Confused, War, Past

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.70, Hamilton Books

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• Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

  George Foreman

  Motivational, Fighting, Boxing

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• But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Night, Fire, Terror

  Letter to John Holmes, 22 Apr. 1820.

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• I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Father, Independence

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• Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Night, Dawn

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.66, Anchor

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• Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).

  Derrick Bell

  Life, Change, Self Esteem

  Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.5, Basic Books

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• As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

  Edwin Francis Gay

  Sorry, Kindness, Heart

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• When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

  Michael Leunig

  Dog, Song, Lying

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• Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

  John Gummer

  Alarms, Climate, Needs

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• I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

  Amory Lovins

  Life, Long, Jars

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• The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Liberty, World

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• But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Hats, Want

  "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.

  Witold Rybczynski

  Journey, Ethos, Cities

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fisher of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.
  There are thoughts that moan from the soul of the pine
  And thoughts in a flower-bell curled;
  And the thoughts that are blown with the scent of the fern
  Are as new and as old as the world.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Flower

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• The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

  Gordon Allport

  Dog, Offering, Long

  "A Psychological Interpretation". Book by Gordon Allport, p. 199, 1938.

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• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

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• A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Funeral

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.120

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• Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

  John Fogerty

  Philosophy, Thinking, Rodeo

  Song: Rock and Roll Girls

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• Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

  Walter Isaacson

  Research, Telephones, Scoffing

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item.

  Frank Murkowski

  Stores, Walks, Tagged

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• And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

  John Masefield

  Baby, Children, Home

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Laughter

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• When I think about the holidays, I think about the Salvation Army guys ringing bells in front of stores. They're always so nice to you and they're always willing to give a heart to heart conversation. They actually bear the winter cold to ask for your petty cash with a smile on their face. Fudge those guys.

  Zach Braff

  Nice, Heart, Holiday

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• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

  Karolyn Grimes

  Movie, Christmas, Angel

  "Fire In Belltown, USA Destroys Last Bell Factory". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. May 31, 2012.

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• I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties ‘avec le bourgeois’ / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

  Cat Stevens

  Song, Stars, Party

  Song: (I Never Wanted) To Be a Star, Album: Izitso

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