Bugle Quotes

#1. Tea, pa! said Charlotte, starting at the word like the old war-horse who hears the bugle; and we got down to it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.

L. Frank Baum

#3. Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

Dom DeLuise

#4. As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.

Louis Armstrong

#5. I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

Gordon Lightfoot

#6. She rearranged her legs again. If she kept doing that, it was possible that I might begin to bugle like a stallion. Which would not be dignified.

Robert B. Parker

#7. My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Douglas MacArthur

#8. The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it,

Maya Angelou

#9. Somewhere near the Alamo, a bugle brayed: either that or McCulloch's men had found some reason to torture a poor, defenseless donkey.

Harry Turtledove

#10. With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling - an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.

Libba Bray

#11. Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

Walter Scott

#12. O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#13. I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.

Ai Qing

#14. The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

Rollo May

#15. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills ...

Walt Whitman

#16. The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#18. I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Sylvester Stallone

#19. I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#20. Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

Benjamin Carson

#21. A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

Margaret Chan

#22. Most people who'd had three brushes with death - one involving a ghoul - would be scared into a very cooperative state. Tammy appeared to be channeling her inner Paris Hilton instead.

Jeaniene Frost

#23. That is what we do for the ones we love: we lie to protect them. Not all truths are welcome.

John Connolly

#24. We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Susan B. Anthony

#25. Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Rudolf Arnheim

#26. We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. Even the outright deletions that Ayn Rand's editor should have taken care of).

Anna Quindlen

#28. to follow God does not often mean traveling with certainty about where God will lead us. Rather, following God propels us to be present to the place where we are, for this is the very place where God shows up.

Jan L. Richardson

#29. I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.

Suzy Bogguss