Top 32 Silent Spring Quotes
#1. I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.
N.J. Berrill
#2. I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.
Terry Tempest Williams
#3. Carson's thesis that we were subjecting ourselves to slow poisoning by the misuse of chemical pesticides that polluted the environment may seem like common currency now, but in 1962 Silent Spring contained the kernel of social revolution.
Rachel Carson
#4. She did not trust herself not to kill him with the spoon.
Lauren Groff
#5. One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)!
Gangrel
#6. I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.
Jason Schwartzman
#7. One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.
Don Carter
#8. It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
Seneca The Younger
#9. Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation:
youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
#10. I need ... I need your God. I have watched you and ... and you have such joy. Such peace. Both you and Zoe. How I long for it. But, Julia, I cannot go to your meeting to find it. Your father would be very angry. He might disown both of us.
Davis Bunn
#11. A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale
#12. The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.
Chanakya
#13. What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?"
"Shut up, Garett."
"Yes, ma'am.
Cindy Gerard
#14. Spring-water in the green creek is clear Moonlight on Cold Mountain is white Silent knowledge - the spirit is enlightened of itself Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.
Gary Snyder
#16. If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
James Baldwin
#17. Wo ai ni, Tessa." he whispered. "Wo bu xiang shi qu ni."
I love you.
And I don't want to lose you.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson
#19. The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.
Klaus Kinski
#20. We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?
Bonnie Friedman
#21. The breath of springtime at this twilight hour
Comes through the gathering glooms,
And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower
Into my silent rooms.
William C. Bryant
#22. But the silent majority and I do have one memorial, at least. The Disaster. We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in Spring. This is not enough.
A. L. Kennedy
#23. I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those who would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.
Malalai Joya
#25. In the depth of a spring, if you ever feel lonely and feel the need of my love, just remember me, I will be there to listen to your heart beats and silent songs of your soul.
Debasish Mridha
#26. It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
Dylan Thomas
#27. Solomon lifts his morning cup to the mountains. Sit down in this pavilion, and don't listen to religious bickering. Be silent as we absorb the spring.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#28. It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but silent, silent as he tries to shoot the bull before it tramples him. Sometimes he is very peaceful not tonight. Tonight he is fighting for his life.
Peter Heller
#29. Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.
Charlotte Mary Yonge
#30. At last the spring thaw came, and graves were laboriously prepared for the nine silent harvests of the grim reaper which waited in the tomb.
H.P. Lovecraft
#31. This book probably makes it seem like I hate myself and everything I do. But that's not totally true. I mostly just hate every person I've ever been. I'm actually fine with myself right now.
Jesse Andrews
#32. Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.
Merle Shain
