Felicia Hemans Quotes

#1. Passing away is written on the world and all the world contains.

Felicia Hemans

#2. Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Felicia Hemans

#3. Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

Felicia Hemans

#4. War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

Martin McGuinness

#5. There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

Peace Pilgrim

#6. I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

Jeffrey Archer

#7. There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

St. Jerome

#8. I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

Reba McEntire

#9. Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

Vieux Farka Toure

#10. Alas! for love, if thou art all,
And nought beyond, O earth.

Felicia Hemans

#11. The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

Felicia Hemans

#12. God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it's sinking.

Michael Leunig

#13. At the end, you find the beginning.

Jen Calonita

#14. There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Felicia Hemans

#15. Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

Felicia Hemans

#16. Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

Felicia Hemans

#17. Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

Edward Kennedy

#18. Come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o'er the mountain with light and song:
Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves, opening as I pass.

Felicia Hemans

#19. As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

Alexander Pope

#20. A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

Felicia Hemans

#21. Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?

Felicia Hemans

#22. He chose better for me, He always chooses better

Yasmin Mogahed

#23. I still miss my gramma. I can see her at the farm, in her apron, babushka and support stockings. My Slovak gramma spoiled us with pig in the blankets, kalachi, pop, chips and a drawer full of lollipops. It was heaven.

Regina Brett

#24. Rincewind switched to High Borogravian, to Vanglemesht, Sumtri and even Black Oroogu, the language with no nouns and only one adjective, which is obscene. Each was met with polite incomprehension. In desperation he tried heathen Trob, and the little man's face split into a delighted grin.

Terry Pratchett

#25. All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Arnold H. Glasow

#26. We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Felicia Hemans

#27. Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

Felicia Hemans

#28. Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod,
They have left unstained, what there they found,-
Freedom to worship God.

Felicia Hemans

#29. There's beauty all around our paths,
If but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things,
And through their lowly guise.

Felicia Hemans

#30. There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart

Felicia Hemans

#31. I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Garry Trudeau

#32. I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.

Felicia Hemans

#33. Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

Felicia Hemans

#34. Life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

Felicia Hemans