Meadows Quotes

Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.

— John Gay

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

— Albert Hofmann

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

— Gertrude Stein

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

— Talib Kweli

“That’s who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.”

— Bernice L. McFadden

And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

— James Russell Lowell

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

— Shunryu Suzuki

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a…

— Pauline Oliveros

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more…

— Anton Chekhov

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

— George Linley

My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did…

— Andrew Marvell

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

— Anonymous

... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall…

— Annie Proulx

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow,…

— John Ruskin

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

— William C. Bryant

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to…

— Izaak Walton

The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and…

— Ray Bradbury

. . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows,…

— Chief Seattle

Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the…

— Dale Carnegie

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity,…

— Og Mandino

All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken…

— Henry Van Dyke

Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their…

— Marcel Proust

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Finn always called it Enna's Stream. He tended to refer to most anything as belonging to her--Enna's Meadow, Enna's Mountain. When he…

— Shannon Hale

But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if…

— David Quammen

For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the…

— Christopher Smart

In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard…

— Anne Lamott

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Some of the memories were not clear---dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd…

— Stephenie Meyer

The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.…

— William O. Douglas

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.

— Daryl Hannah

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

— Philip K. Dick

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

— Ivan Turgenev

The crowds at Flushing Meadow are about as impartial as a Nuremberg Rally.

— Ian Wooldridge

The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

— e. e. cummings

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

— James Galvin

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

— Robert Breault

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

— Ralph Waldo Emerson