Echoes Quotes - Page 9

• This is the first thing I have understood:
  Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

  Philip Larkin

  Woods, Firsts, Understood

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

  William Shakespeare

  Doctors, Land, Water

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1859). “The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens”, p.280

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• Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.

  Elias Canetti

  Real, Lying, Men

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• Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved. Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody. Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Horse

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• When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew the blur of wings, the rocketing form, and the Great Moment that only hunters know, when all existence draws down to two points and a single line. And the universe holds it breath. And what may be and what will be meet and become one - before the echo returns to its source.

  Pete Dunne

  Gun, Hunting, Hands

  Pete Dunne (1995). “Before the Echo: Essays on Nature”

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• Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Ties

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.

  Denise Levertov

  Eye, Past, Breathing

  Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

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• Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.

  Miroslav Volf

  Simple, Attention, Deeds

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• Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Mind, Fame, Known

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• When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Children, Curves, Mirrors

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.737, Dell

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• Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Desert, Cry, Tire

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”, p.16

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• I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Kids, Frustration, Doors

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• Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

  Harry Nilsson

  Insanity, Mind

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• I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it.

  Saint Augustine

  Healing, Soul, Doe

  "The Confessions of St. Augustine".

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• I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

  Fiona Apple

  Lasts, Moments, Canyons

  Song: Container

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• If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Kindness, Cutting, Clouds

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press

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• Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, California, Together

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Broken Heart, Dream, Real

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.400, e-artnow

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• (memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

  Julio Cortazar

  Memories, Expectations, Acoustics

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• I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. -- Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse gently with a neat soundless crash. I must not, or lose all.

  e. e. cummings

  Tired, Unique, Moon

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

  Janet Fitch

  Dream, Drinking, Blue

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• I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.

  Guy Maddin

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

  Colleen McCullough

  Sleep, Blessing, Nuisance

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.365, Head of Zeus

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• A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

  Larry Crabb

  Leadership, Giving, Soul

  Larry Crabb (2005). “Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships”, p.112, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Passion, Fate

  Winston Churchill, David Cannadine (1989). “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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