Dappled Quotes

23 quotes by 22 authors

Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and… — Wang Wei
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the… — David Brooks
Glory be to God for dappled things. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but… — Flora Thompson
Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the… — Mary Pope Osborne
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing… — Kim Stanley Robinson
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. — John Milton
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth
Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and… — William Butler Yeats
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds. — James Joyce
...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer around her and… — Robin McKinley
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the… — Marcel Proust
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous… — Vladimir Nabokov
Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and… — John Marsden
Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in… — Kristin Cashore
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light. — Kate DiCamillo
Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident.… — George R. R. Martin
Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual,… — Karen Marie Moning
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal… — Adrienne Rich

Who Wrote These Dappled Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 23 Dappled Quotes as follows: