Chime Quotes

41 quotes by 40 authors

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently… — Thomas Hood
One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call… — Robin Williams
Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a… — Cyril Connolly
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off… — Celia Thaxter
Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb!… — Henry Vaughan
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard… — Charles Lamb
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the… — W. S. Gilbert
Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down… — Robert W. Service
The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it. — Glenn Reynolds
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. — Andrew Marvell
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find… — Virginia Woolf
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left… — Ben Jonson
E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for… — Frederick Douglass
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness wonâ€™t chime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music. — George Herbert
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible. — Dante Alighieri
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself… — John Milton
...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in… — Charlotte Turner Smith
It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the… — Colum McCann
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost… — James Russell Lowell

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