Bough Quotes
30 Bough quotes by 28 unique authors
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
— Dante Alighieri
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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned…
— Lewis Carroll
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It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the…
— Clinton Scollard
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Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.
— Gary Snyder
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered…
— William Butler Yeats
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September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
— Robert Lowell
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Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.
— George Pope Morris
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My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers…
— William Saroyan
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Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had…
— Philipp Meyer
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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?
— Charles Spurgeon
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But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a fascination in walking…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
— Hugh Martin
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The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn…
— William Allingham
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A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
— Edward Fitzgerald
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than…
— Sara Teasdale
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
— Ezra Pound
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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or…
— Bram Stoker
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I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from…
— Dorothy Parker
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When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall…
— Sara Teasdale
Who Wrote These Bough Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Bough Quotes, led by these top contributors: