Blackened Quotes
34 quotes by 32 authors
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or…
— Peter Cundall
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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours, one Friday-Christ firmly…
— Max Lucado
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Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its…
— Raoul Dufy
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry…
— W G Sebald
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I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is…
— Noy Holland
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I will buy you back with My blood because I love you. I will free you from the chains of sin. I will settle the…
— Billy Graham
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted…
— Charles Dickens
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a…
— Joyce Cary
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone…
— Natasha Bedingfield
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John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.
— Malcolm Allison
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The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible…
— John Muir
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation…
— Paul Stamets
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Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it,…
— Sloane Crosley
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Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved,…
— Bernard Beckett
Who Wrote These Blackened Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 34 Blackened Quotes, led by these top contributors: