Roved Quotes

#1. SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I wish I was what I have been
And what I was could be
As when I roved in shadows green
And loved my willow tree
To gaze upon the starry sky
And higher fancies build
And make in solitary joy
Loves temple in the field

John Clare

#3. Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea.
The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be
free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite
from life?

Thomas Mann

#4. And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

William Butler Yeats

#5. I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Brian Ferneyhough

#6. The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen saints - a crown of great favor and authority with God and men - a new and greater installment of the fruits and blessings of the Spirit. Another measure, and another, and another.

Todd Bentley

#7. Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Judy Collins

#8. I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible.

Margot Kidder

#9. The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, "The strength of your book is your villain." How

Debra Dixon

#10. Oh, just shut up and fuck me so we can get on with saving the world.

Kristen Ashley

#11. If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

#12. She was no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting.

Garth Nix

#13. There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. Probably the most blood came when I used a cheese grater on his knees.

Iain Banks

#15. We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.

Frederick Lenz