Silver Quotes - Page 18

• Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Sunset, Orange Trees

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• I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Guitar, Guy, Age

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• Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.

  Alexander Moody Stuart

  Music, Heart, Voice

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• There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Elements, Disease, Finance

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• There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  United States, Bullets, September

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• I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.

  David Sanborn

  Real, Kids, Player

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• Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each other. Today? The paper dollar has lost 95% of its value, while the silver dollar is worth $34, and produced a 2-3 times rise in real value. Since we left the gold standard in 1971, both gold and silver have become superior inflation hedges.

  Mark Skousen

  Real, Gold, Dollars

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• Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Bridges, Flying, Enemy

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• The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

  Ouida

  Fall, Heart, Destiny

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.548, Ouida

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• But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Death, Stars, Writing

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• There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Work, Race

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• To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

  Arthur Koestler

  Pieces, Honest, Thirty

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “Darkness at noon”

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• Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Silence, May, Speech

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• When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Light, Sight

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.120, Canongate Books

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• Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Land, Sky

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.200, Collector's Library

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• Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
  Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
  Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
  Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
  Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
  Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
  Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
  Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

  George Meredith

  Song, Laughter, Sunset

  George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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• I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

  John Betjeman

  Visions Of The Future, Towers, Fields

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.177, A&C Black

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• My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place!

  Martina Navratilova

  Mother, Memories, Hair

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• The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Men, Quality, Charity

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1823). “The School for Scandal: A Comedy”, p.128

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• When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Peace, Tree, Serenity

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Conservationist”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.

  Gordon Wu

  Money, Work, Silver Platter

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

  Alicia Keys

  Silver Platter, Hands, World

  Song: If I Ain't Got You, Album: The Diary of Alicia Keys, 2003

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• And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Country, Sweet

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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