Bright Quotes

1996 Bright quotes by 1325 unique authors

My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country… — Vaclav Havel
The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's… — Heinrich Heine
Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by. — Fred Allen
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of… — Emma Lazarus
Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of… — Robert Montgomery
On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair.… — Heinrich Heine
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many… — Heinrich Heine
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures. — John Ruskin
The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are… — Robert Graves
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in. — Jeff Cooper
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small,… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything that… — Eliot Porter
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of… — Hermann Hesse
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees,… — Leo Buscaglia
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers... — Isaac D'Israeli
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded,… — Bill Watterson
Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on,… — William Blake
Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love… — John Kendrick Bangs
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,… — Michel de Montaigne
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man… — Robert Louis Stevenson
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul,… — Edmund Waller
The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams. — Robert Breault
Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and… — Nick Gordon

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