Adown Quotes

#1. O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

James Whitcomb Riley

#2. The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

William Sharp

#3. Touch us gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently,-as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream!

Bryan Procter

#4. Tis rushing now adown the spout,
And gushing out below,
Half frantic in its joyousness,
And wild in eager flow.
The earth is dried and parched with heat,
And it hath long'd to be
Released from out the selfish cloud,
To cool the thirsty tree.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#5. For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

Umberto Eco

#7. Those who show off do not shine.

Laozi

#8. The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

The Rev

#9. When you really love some one and you go to bed with them, you always want to give more than just sex.

Robert Pattinson

#10. All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

Michael Carr

#11. Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.

Henri Nouwen

#12. Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

Richard Wright

#13. The fine art of restraint, timely practised, is too beautiful, to go against.

Kamini Arichandran

#14. The faces of the panel listening were the very embodiment of skepticism made flesh.

Lorrie Moore

#15. Never believe a man who says God no longer does miracles, Ben. But never believe a man who says God must do a miracle the way a man wants him to. God is God.

Randy Alcorn

#16. It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

Aristotle.

#17. I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Charles Bukowski

#18. Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

David Hume