Yellow Quotes - Page 25

• As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Adversity, Commitment

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• ...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Mother, Dog, Racist

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• Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Orange, Humanity, Red

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics

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• The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

  Immanuel Kant

  People, Racist, Talent

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• White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

  Claude Aveline

  Men, White, Racism

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• Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Children, Blessed, Race

  Lewis H. Lapham (1995). “Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle”, p.18, Verso

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• The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Integrity, Men

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• The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

  Li Bai

  Hurt, Butterfly, Garden

  Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”

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• If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Meditation, Deceit

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• You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you? You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines.

  Gautama Buddha

  Light, Hands, Shining

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• Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Rain, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 08, 2015

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• I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

  Dawn Powell

  Kissing, Night, Hands

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• A Primrose by a river's brim
  A yellow primrose was to him
  And it was something more.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Rivers, Rose

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• We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.

  Deena Metzger

  Grief, Eye, Agony

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• He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Stars, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

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• The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Morning, Stars

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• I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

  Joni Mitchell

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

  J. D. Salinger

  Years, Two, Pieces

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with its yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts.

  Luis de Camoes

  Beautiful, Hair, Smell

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• The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

  Marian McPartland

  Keys, Blue, Maroon

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• Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

  Robin Boyd

  Dust, White, House

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• You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers.

  Robin Benway

  Crazy, Ideas, Tape

  Robin Benway (2010). “The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June”, p.79, Penguin

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• If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a “rolling stop”; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Teacher, Light, Expression

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• I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

  Charli XCX

  Hate, Purple, Black

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• I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  Dad, Green, Want

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