Mary Howitt Quotes

#1. Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Michael Moorcock

#2. I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.

Shimon Peres

#3. God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race
to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Mary Howitt

#4. Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

Rupert Sanders

#5. Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wile.

Mary Howitt

#6. Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.

Mary Howitt

#7. Buttercups and daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers;
Coming ere the spring time,
To tell of sunny hours.
When the trees are leafless;
When the fields are bare;
Buttercups and daisies
Spring up here and there.

Mary Howitt

#8. True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.

Mary Howitt

#9. He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt

#10. Will you walk into my parlour? said the Spider to the Fly

Mary Howitt

#11. I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts - Heaven, bless the merry child! He's father's self in face and limb, And father's heart is strong in him. Shout, baby, shout! and clap thy hands, For father on the threshold stands.

Mary Howitt

#12. I feel tired, but in general, I do love being pregnant and always feel pretty good. I'm lucky. I always hear, like, horror stories.

Kourtney Kardashian

#13. For visions come not to polluted eyes.

Mary Howitt

#14. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#15. Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

Bernard Cornwell

#16. To ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair
Can ne'er come down again.

Mary Howitt

#17. It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we use it.

Saravana Kumar Murugan

#18. Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.

Kevin Fowler

#19. Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.

Mary Howitt

#20. Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.

Mary Howitt

#21. I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard. In the same way it surprises me that uneducated seamstresses all over the world can figure out how to put in sleeves and zippers.

Lucia Berlin

#22. Winning is everything.

Jeff Rich

#23. People are earning their living as 'celebrities' without actually doing anything.

Dominic Cooper

#24. When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

Mary Howitt

#25. Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

Mary Howitt

#26. If God is your problem, only God is your solution.

Tony Evans

#27. The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.

Mary Howitt

#28. And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

Mary Howitt