Meadows Quotes - Page 2

• From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Way, Firsts, Moments

  Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Happiness, Moon, Simple

  Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Book, Healing

  "The Essential Goethe".

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• We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

  Haruki Murakami

  Two, People, Bird

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2010

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• Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,
  And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

  George Linley

  I Miss You, Missing You, Beautiful

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Dream, Sleep, Past

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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• The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

  e. e. cummings

  Sweet, Feet, Soul

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who is committed to protecting and holding close the things by which we live...And we want to protect and conserve the land on which we live - our countryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and meadows and forests. This is our patrimony. This is what we leave to our children. And our great moral responsibility is to leave it to them either as we found it or better than we found it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Responsibility, Men

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• But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

  Audrey Meadows

  Hard Times, Reality, Actors

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• Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

  Audrey Meadows

  Fans, Different, Mail

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• Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

  Audrey Meadows

  Said, Heard, Grants

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• Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

  Audrey Meadows

  Fans, Looks, Saws

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• Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!

  Audrey Meadows

  Stars, Fans, Excited

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• Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

  Audrey Meadows

  People, Rooms, Lanes

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• To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Sheep, Giving, Cows

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds

  Henri La Fontaine

  Sheep, Shepherds, Slaughterhouses

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Sadness, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

  William Bartram

  Nature, Views, Order

  William Bartram (1958). “The Travels of William Bartram”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

  David F. Houston

  Land, Broken, Doe

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• It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

  Francis Parkman

  Sunset, Glowing, Sky

  Francis Parkman (1991). “The Oregon Trail ; The Conspiracy of Pontiac”, p.40, Library of America

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• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Butterfly, Golf, Upset

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.128, The Floating Press

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• Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

  Donella Meadows

  Views, World, Evolution

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• My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.

  Andrew Marvell

  Gay, Glasses, Mind

  c.1650-1652 'The Mower's Song' (published 1681).

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• Who, of men, can tell
  That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
  To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
  The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
  The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones,
  The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
  Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
  If human souls did never kiss and greet?

  John Keats

  Sweet, Flower, Science

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 1, l. 835

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• Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Love, Beach, Fall

  1968 'The Great American Frustration', in the Saturday Review, 9 Jul.

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