Top 28 Plucks Quotes
#1. Flesh does strange things to memory. Pain and joy both alter it. When you are happy, you remember things one way. When you are sad, you remember them another. And sometimes the flesh does not admit that memory is real at all or plucks false memories out of thin air.
Tanya Karen Gough
#3. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.
Hans Christian Andersen
#4. Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
William Butler Yeats
#5. Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
William Shakespeare
#6. The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
Hannah More
#7. It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#8. Mary is an apple.
Whoever plucks her
Nails his heart
To the leafless tree.
Ted Hughes
#9. Happy Hunger Games!" He plucks a few blackberries from the bushes around us. "And may the odds - " He tosses a berry in a high arc toward me.
Suzanne Collins
#10. The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
Euripides
#11. The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
Anne Fadiman
#12. Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Pindar
#13. He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.
Herman Melville
#14. No benign deity plucks television news show hosts from their desks in the prime of life and then hastily compensates their friends and family by displays of irradiated droplets in the sky.
Mark Leibovich
#17. Travel plucks us out of the worn routines of our lives and plops us down into a new culture, language, or city, and lets us figure life out. It strips the excess away and melts us down to our core. It teaches us that stuff doesn't make us happy - only experiences and being present do that.
Fred Perrotta
#18. Strange how something that only affected me was decided by you.
Roshani Chokshi
#19. Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
Bruce Lee
#20. We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.
Carl Einstein
#21. If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.
Steven Spielberg
#22. Every God demands sacrifice. What sacrifice does your God require?' 'Obedience.
Francine Rivers
#23. Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#24. I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
Chuck Klosterman
#25. If leaving is the right thing to do, then I'll hurt myself to keep from hurting you, to keep you safe.
Stephenie Meyer
#26. Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration?
Anonymous
#27. That's what unconditional love is all about - being an encourager of people's passions, loves, and dreams - even if you don't agree with them.
Robin S. Sharma
#28. Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.
Lou Gramm
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