Top 33 Alfred Noyes Quotes
#1. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding
Riding
riding
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
Alfred Noyes
#2. Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon ...
Alfred Noyes
#4. At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
Alfred Noyes
#5. To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime
Bill Gates
#6. The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.
Rumi
#7. Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!
Alfred Noyes
#8. Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
Alfred Noyes
#9. Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.
Alfred Noyes
#10. St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
Alfred Noyes
#11. Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
Natalie Imbruglia
#12. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#13. Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.
Alfred Noyes
#14. Love is in the greenwood, dawn is in the skies, And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes.
Alfred Noyes
#15. Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy.
Nicole Sager
#16. It amazes me that you can find all that shit even remotely interesting.
John Green
#17. Enough of dreams! No longer mock
The burdened hearts of men!
Not on the cloud, but on the rock
Build thou thy faith again; O range no more the realms of air,
Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
Thy hope was all too like despair:
Enough, enough of dreams.
Alfred Noyes
#18. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#19. Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.
Jason Marsden
#20. Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.
Alfred Noyes
#21. Without will-power, you become a victim to the evils of procrastination, laziness and sloth.
Robin S. Sharma
#22. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
Alfred Noyes
#23. There's a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
Alfred Noyes
#24. What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#25. Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
Alfred Noyes
#26. Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.
Alfred Noyes
#27. This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.
Alfred Noyes
#28. Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love are few, and the ones you detest are many.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#30. If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
Alfred Noyes
#31. The truth is that our wellbeing is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!
Jack Canfield
#32. Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
Love will find out the way.
Alfred Noyes
#33. The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.
Alfred Noyes
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