Harps Quotes

107 quotes by 89 authors

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker… — Khalil Gibran
I've played everything but the harp. — Lionel Barrymore
I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils… — Richard Paul Evans
Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Brian Skerry
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird. — Maurice Jarre
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests… — Corinne Heline
Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter. — Oliver Herford
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. — Judah Halevi
The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we… — Robert Green Ingersoll
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy… — Elmer Kelton
What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes… — Bill Bailey
Hills tell old stories.Â Cliffs are poets with harps — George MacKay
I've played everything but a harp. — Hattie McDaniel
Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts… — Norman Grubb
And tears are heard within the harp I touch. — Petrarch
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just. — Aristotle
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green,… — John Milton
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth. — Elihu Burritt

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