Droops Quotes

#1. Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Jacopo Sannazaro

#2. I look at you, Mrs. Emily. I see your eyes smile before your lips. Your hair has a curl that droops onto your forehead when the weather is humid . . .

I look at you too, Sabine. I see you.

Phyllis H. Moore

#3. Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#4. Western Red Cedar bark and cones are distinct. The foliage is not coniferous ... the tree has flat intricate fronds that branch out like lace. It droops down, hanging fingers from each branch. In certain lights, it looks like a tree made of ferns.

Ned Hayes

#5. Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, -
Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag, -

Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree, -
Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.

Alfred Tennyson

#6. My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#7. My eyes are green, and in one of them there is a splash of brown - apparently it is not a colour, but a freckle! Sometimes I notice that one eyelid droops more than the other.

Rick Wakeman

#8. As a flower plucked from a tree gradually droops and shrivels, love that avoids the harsh realities of practical life cannot thrive on its own resources.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. So I stare at the beautiful brand-new crinoline dress that's mine alone with no whiff of mothballs. Even so, it droops a little.

Fanny Britt

#10. The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

William Ellery Channing

#11. Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear.

Thomas Nashe

#12. So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!

Abigail Van Buren

#13. The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

David Hume

#14. Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

Margaret Atwood

#15. God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#16. The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.

Raymond Chandler

#17. When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

Keith Rabois

#18. The language of truth is simple.

Euripides

#19. The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those 'ones to tell the grandchildren' memories.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#20. Hello, Tatiana. I'm Alexander. Have we met before?

Paullina Simons

#21. I embarked on a campaign of honey and kindness, which, if you've never tried it, is very hard to do with someone who thinks you are chickenhearted and has in the past called you a poxy sluggard. It is especially hard if every day you are plagued with fear about what might happen next.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#22. The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.

Nicholas G. Carr

#23. Some say art is our highest form of hope ... Perhaps it's our only hope.

Roma Tearne

#24. Trade is a social act.

John Stuart Mill

#25. Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary.

Joanne Van Leerdam