Cries Quotes
568 Cries quotes by 451 unique authors
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I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with…
— John Stott
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Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
— Anne Rice
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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
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In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade…
— John Banville
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A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries,…
— William Faulkner
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What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But…
— James Joyce
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...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the…
— Tom Franklin
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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance…
— Paul Washer
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We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.
— Archie Fire Lame Deer
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No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and…
— Emily St. John Mandel
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The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the…
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.
— Timothy Keller
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Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and,…
— Jean Giraudoux
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To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
— George Santayana
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