Quotes About Yarrow

#1. Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow you've grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from my mouth.

Elijah Noble El

#2. My woman has a wandering eye;
Yarrow, thyme and thorn.
She eyes the ocean and the sky
While stitching sails, forlorn.
I got a kiss, and then a tear
As she bade me go;
But on the waves, my heart's in fear:
My woman's in the know.

F.T. McKinstry

#3. Mr. Paggle lifted his own ale in the air. "What shall we toast to?"
"Yarrow's right hook?" Peer said.
"Bray's unladylike nerve?" Arlow suggested.
"To new friends," Yarrow said.
"New friends," they agreed. Their glasses clinked merrily.

March McCarron

#4. THE FUTURE There is nothing about it. Much science fiction is set there but is not about it. Prophecy is not about it. It sways no yarrow stalks. And crystal is a mirror. Even the man we nailed on a tree for a lookout said little about it; he told us evil would come. We

Les Murray

#5. I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

Margot Asquith

#6. 1 ounce dried comfrey leaf 1 ounce yarrow blossoms 1 ounce dried sage leaf 1 ounce dried rosemary leaf 1 large fresh bulb of garlic ½ cup of sea salt

Aviva Romm

#7. The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of
Chris Chandler.

Peter Yarrow

#8. The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'

Peter Yarrow

#9. People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

Peter Yarrow

#10. We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Peter Yarrow

#11. Her nerves tingled with a sudden alarm. The pattern didn't speak of love and commitment to her; there was something else there, something darker, something that spoke of control and submission, of loss and darkness.

Cassandra Clare

#12. The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

Peter Yarrow

#13. Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.

Peter Yarrow

#14. I feel like I need to sing again.

Peter Yarrow

#15. A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

Peter Yarrow

#16. To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

Peter Yarrow

#17. I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers ... "
I never thought for a second
we wouldn't save the people

Andrea Gibson

#18. When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection.

Peter Yarrow

#19. We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

Peter Yarrow

#20. Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don't look so goddamn smug. - GERARD RYDER

Christopher Moore

#21. There is only one river. There is only one sea.
And it flows through you, and it flows through me.
There is only one people. We are one and the same.
We are all one spirit. We are all one name.

Peter Yarrow

#22. She was a rare white rose in a kingdom of thorns, and she wouldn't let anyone stain her petals red.

Alex Johnson

#23. she's shopping for a sense of control, a distraction from anxiety, and a feeling of mastery and competence.

Kit Yarrow

#24. Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

William Powell

#25. * We have come this far always believing
that justice would somehow prevail.
This is the burden, this is the promise,
and THIS is why we will not fail.

Peter Yarrow

#26. The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

Peter Yarrow

#27. Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

Peter Yarrow

#28. People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

Peter Yarrow

#29. I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

Tom Scholz

#30. Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

Peter Yarrow