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Clouds Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
- Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life…
- The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy…
- Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
- If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if…
- We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its…
- As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at…
- To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we…
- The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
- It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think…
- You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
- Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I climbed…
- The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough…
More Clouds Quotes
- Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. — Honore de Balzac
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the… — Edward Abbey
- Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up… — Joseph Addison
- I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
- As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant
- Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a… — Lewis Black
- Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments. — John Boehner
- All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. — Richard Brautigan