Glowworm Quotes

#1. Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

Robert Herrick

#2. Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. An hour before dawn they went down to the cove, following the bubble of the stream and the descending combe, with a glowworm here and there green-lit like a jewel in the dark.

Winston Graham

#4. Everybody who was anybody seemed to be going to a meeting, the glowworm, who was a solipsist, the lemur who was not.

James Tate

#5. The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.

Gerald Vann

#6. For when you come to think of it, which is the real shape of the glowworm: the insignificant little creature crawling about on the palm of you hand, or the poetic spark that swims through the summer night?

Thomas Mann

#7. The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

William Shakespeare

#8. Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.

William Fulton

#9. The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfect
square, crisp, thick, impervious even to life.

Virginia Woolf

#10. One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

Betsy Cornwell

#11. And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano ... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#12. Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus

#13. Dad was more into last impressions than first ones, which makes his death all the more symbolic.

Cecelia Ahern

#14. When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

Alexandra Daddario

#15. There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.

Sheila Heti

#16. You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Doris Lessing

#17. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Aleister Crowley