Top 59 Quotes About Coventry
#1. When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.
Jerry Dammers
#2. Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.
Martin Caidin
#3. I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.
Brendan Coyle
#4. I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
Bobby Gould
#5. Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards ... the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill ... tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
Joseph Goebbels
#6. I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#7. Would anyone remember the story of Godiva if she lowered Coventry's taxes without taking her clothes off?
Daniel Donoghue
#8. The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value.
Michael Reeves
#9. Alessandro del Piero reminds me of Robert Rosario when I had him at Coventry.
Bobby Gould
#10. The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.
Martin Caidin
#11. Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
Coventry Patmore
#12. Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
Coventry Patmore
#13. The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
Coventry Patmore
#16. What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
Coventry Patmore
#17. It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
Coventry Patmore
#19. The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
Coventry Patmore
#21. Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
Kirsty Coventry
#23. I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.
Kirsty Coventry
#24. For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.
Coventry Patmore
#25. How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!
Coventry Patmore
#26. The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.
Coventry Patmore
#27. To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
#28. Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
Coventry Patmore
#29. Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.
Coventry Patmore
#30. A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.
Coventry Patmore
#32. Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
Coventry Patmore
#33. To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
#34. There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.
Kirsty Coventry
#35. Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!
Coventry Patmore
#36. Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
Coventry Patmore
#37. People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.
Kirsty Coventry
#38. Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
Coventry Patmore
#39. I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!
Coventry Patmore
#40. One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
Coventry Patmore
#41. The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
Coventry Patmore
#42. Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
Coventry Patmore
#43. Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.
Coventry Patmore
#44. To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
Coventry Patmore
#45. The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
Coventry Patmore
#46. Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.
Coventry Patmore
#47. It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.
Kirsty Coventry
#48. Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Coventry Patmore
#50. If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'
Coventry Patmore
#51. I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.
Kirsty Coventry
#52. The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.
Coventry Patmore
#53. In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
Kirsty Coventry
#54. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.
Coventry Patmore
#55. Everyone there including President Mugabe knows something needs to change because so many people are hurting.
Kirsty Coventry
#57. All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.
Coventry Patmore
#58. A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
Coventry Patmore
#59. The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise.
Coventry Patmore
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