Pipping Quotes

#1. A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

Richard Baxter

#3. In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.

Edward Gibbon

#4. For most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

Iris Murdoch

#5. Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

Jeffrey Deitch

#6. When you don't become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.

T.D. Jakes

#7. The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Stephen Leacock