Floats Quotes - Page 19

• I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

  Williston Fish

  Children, Yellow, White

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• You don't have to work at being in the high vibration that is natural to you, because it is natural to you. But you do have to stop holding the thoughts that cause you to lower your vibration. It's a matter of no longer giving your attention to things that don't allow your cork to float or don't allow you to vibrate in harmony with who you really are.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Giving

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Power, Shadow, Unseen

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.73, JHU Press

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• Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Morning, Fire, Oil

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.77, Island Press

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• It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Issues, Ethical Questions

  "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.

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• I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

  Sara Teasdale

  Dark, Moon, Light

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

  Gerald Massey

  Love, Dark, Earth

  Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1854). “Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author”, p.29

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• To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Memories, Rain, Heart

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.176, Macmillan

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• Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Book, Ocean, World

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.128, Macmillan

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  Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

  Bob Ross

  Clouds, Sky, Littles

  Attributed to Bob Ross in "Painter Bob Ross remains an iconic figure years after his death" by Ann Curry, NBC News, September 22, 2004.

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• Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities.

  Scott Cunningham

  Evil, Negativity, Earth

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• My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

  Douglas Portway

  Space, Water, People

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• Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

  Bill Mollison

  Beach, Years, Sea

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Air, Blue

  H.P. Lovecraft (2008). “Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror”, p.230, Del Rey

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• Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Wall, Spring, Light

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• I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.

  Jordan Mechner

  Cutting, Different, Rope

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• All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

  Li Bai

  Lonely, Clouds, Bird

  Li Po, “Alone Looking At The Mountain”

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• What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.110

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• By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Clouds, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1492, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Running, Clouds, Race

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.

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• It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Years, Interesting

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

  Anne Sexton

  Future, Sleep, Home

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Stars, Memorable, July

  Henry McNeal Turner (1971). “Respect Black: the writings and speeches of Henry McNeal Turner”

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• To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

  Philip Roth

  Cereal, Names, Ivory

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jul 29, 2016

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• Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

  Sun Tzu

  Rivers, Long, Waiting

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