Glories Quotes

125 Glories quotes by 115 unique authors

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear. — Unknown Author
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today,… — Ken Wilber
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at… — Martha Graham
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. — Paulo Coelho
I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they… — Clara Barton
Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all… — John Sentamu
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of… — Arthur Ashe
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror… — William Jones
The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. — Alfred Bunn
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. — George Clymer
The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is… — Jill McCorkle
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless,… — Henry Francis Lyte
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where… — Constantine Peter Cavafy
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these… — Ernest Renan
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way… — Seneca the Younger
Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the… — John Templeton
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr
Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the… — Pliny the Elder
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon… — George Frisbie Hoar
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn… — Jon Pareles
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He… — Thomas S. Monson

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