Top 44 Quotes About Tropic
#1. Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.
Karen Tei Yamashita
#2. Ere the dolphin dies
Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath
Are tropic winds before the voice of death.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#3. I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.
Malcolm X
#5. Sun-struck,
stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes stands
as if considering how to cool avian plastic,
dive into the mown lagoon of lawn;
how take flight on dayglow flap-
doodle wings, no matter
if it is ball-bald going nowhere fast.
Joyce Thomas
#6. Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
Herbert Marcuse
#7. The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.
Diane Ackerman
#8. I roll with Ladies just as tropic as the chronic in my pocket Cop it, Crush it, Roll it, Spark it, and mix it in with the chocolate
Lloyd Banks
#9. The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
#10. Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.
Margaret Mitchell
#11. I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.
Louise DeSalvo
#12. Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.
Bryan Procter
#13. When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.
Bob Denver
#14. Each humid, tropic day is stillborn, and does not breathe, however lustily pregnant the night that gave it birth.
Beryl Markham
#15. Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.
Ebenezer Elliott
#16. For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear.
If not the first, the fairest of the year;
For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours,
And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers.
When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun
The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.
John Dryden
#17. Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
Edmund Waller
#18. Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
William Arthur Ward
#19. Surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!
Leslie Feinberg
#20. TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie.
Warren Ellis
#21. How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
Ben Bernanke
#23. Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
Lydia Lunch
#24. When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.
Regina Brett
#25. I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.
Billie Whitelaw
#26. The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years
Kerry Emanuel
#27. For the moment I can think of nothing - except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.
Henry Miller
#28. Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.
Eric Gamalinda
#29. Time could heal, but it wouldn't make wrongs go away. Time came back like a reminder. Time folded with memory. In a moment, everything could fold itself up, and time stand still.
Karen Tei Yamashita
#30. All unknowns, at first, at least, to me, until I, like Columbus, "discovered" them. Is voyeurism a form of imperialism?
Ann Rower
#31. Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade
#32. Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#33. I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
Henry Miller
#34. Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.
James Jones
#35. The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.
Johan Huizinga
#36. It shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere.
O. Henry
#37. This is what those who haven't crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn't mean that they do not exist.
Julian Barnes
#39. 'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
John Cena
#41. The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon ... Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.
Evelyn Waugh
#43. Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#44. Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts.
Martin Amis
