Jaroslav Seifert Quotes

#1. When I was hungry
I fed almost daily
on the words of her songs.

Jaroslav Seifert

#2. New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

Nina Fedoroff

#3. A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Eddie Cantor

#4. If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

Jaroslav Seifert

#5. A lad changed to a shrub in spring,
the shrub into a shepherd boy,
A fine hair to a lyre string,
snow into snow on hair piled high.

Jaroslav Seifert

#6. And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

Bob Seger

#7. There was a war all over the world
and all over the world
was grief.
And yet I whispered into jewelled ears
verses of love.
It makes me feel ashamed.
But no, not really.

Jaroslav Seifert

#8. Everything on earth has happened before,
nothing is new,
but woe to the lovers
who fail to discover a fresh blossom
in every future kiss.

Jaroslav Seifert

#9. Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Jim Gerlach

#10. Love begins with listening.

Fred Rogers

#11. I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

Anthony Carmona

#12. I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

Sergei Lavrov

#13. The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that, you have much more observational humor.

Robert Mankoff

#14. All my life I have been faithful to love.

Jaroslav Seifert

#15. I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Jill Scott

#16. The worst is yet to come:
I'm still alive.

Jaroslav Seifert

#17. But to cast my life away just like that
for nothing at all
that
I won't do.

Jaroslav Seifert

#18. It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Rowan was watching Chaol as if he might be dinner.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. Life on Earth is fleeting. It's a gift, but when God wants you, He will take you. It's not meant to be a punishment
Cricket Hunt

Fisher Amelie