Wakening Quotes

#1. Come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o'er the mountain with light and song:
Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves, opening as I pass.

Felicia Hemans

#2. The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Thomas Moore

#3. If a tiny bud dares unfold to a wakening new world, if a narrow blade of grass dares to poke its head up from an unlit earth, then surely I can rise and stretch my winter weary bones, surely I can set my face to the spring sun. Surely, I too can be reborn.

Toni Sorenson

#4. She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

Tanith Lee

#5. Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad's Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. The dream state just before wakening when it seems perfectly logical for the goldfish not to like peeling its own potatoes on the bus.

Kate Griffin

#7. Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.

Theodore Roethke

#8. Down the violet wind slid syrinx melodies, wild as foxes, mad as love, strange as wakening.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

#9. I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#10. Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

M.I.A.

#11. As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them.
Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

George Plimpton

#12. The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

Mariella Frostrup

#13. To build is to be robbed.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Fredrik Bajer

#15. I just don't ever want to play the girlfriend. You know, the supporting character in the background who just sort of comes in and goes, "Oh, shucks." It's just a boring character.

Kristen Bell

#16. I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you'll always be happy, because it's always in the now

Willie Nelson

#17. It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting.

Manny Pacquiao

#18. Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

Max Mayfield

#19. If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.

Wilhelm Reich

#20. Pooley the realist pooh-poohed such notions, but Pooley the mystic, dreamer and romantic sensed the aura of pagan mystery which surrounded the crop-headed man.

Robert Rankin

#21. My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.

Jimmy Fallon

#22. The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

Felix Dennis

#23. I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

Ben Affleck

#24. The moment you learn to separate your wants from your needs, your vision becomes clearer.

Kemi Sogunle