Top 19 Belfry Quotes
#1. The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
Victor Hugo
#3. Out, out, into the night,
The belfry bells are ours by right!
E. Nesbit
#4. You may have bats in your belfry but I am more concerned by what may be buried in your cellar.
Steve Merrick
#5. The tall blue spruce trees surrounding the church stood like ancient prophets in white gowns and a peregrine falcon that had taken up residence in the belfry perched on a ledge keeping an eye out for wandering mice.
Kathleen Valentine
#6. Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#7. The belfry of St Cloud slowly emitted ten strokes from its broad sonorous jaws. There was something melancholy in that voice of bronze, which thus breathed its lamentations in the night. But each of those sounds, which told the hour he sighed for, vibrated harmoniously in the heart of the young man.
Alexandre Dumas
#8. Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.
David Mitchell
#9. Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.
Pietro Aretino
#10. At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.
Debbie Stabenow
#12. We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't
and those feelings are probably realistic.
Hugh Prather
#13. My parents mean well," Grace said. "They want me to succeed."
"Well of course," Mallory said. "They love you. But I'm thinking success and happiness don't get along. Sometimes you have to sacrifice one for the other.
Jill Shalvis
#14. Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
William Shakespeare
#15. I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations.
Jeff Kinney
#16. If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.
Nir Eyal
#17. Muse usually gestured like an amphetamine-fueled Sicilian who's nearly gotten clipped by a speeding car.
Harlan Coben
#18. I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
Albert Einstein
