Harps Quotes

107 Harps quotes by 89 unique authors

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a… — John Grier Hibben
Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get… — Mark Slouka
And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. — Unknown Author
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment. — Marsden Hartley
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly… — Robertson Davies
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that… — Gautama Buddha
Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps… — Anton Szandor LaVey
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.… — Charles Lamb
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to… — Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played. — Jacqueline Carey
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing… — Aristotle
If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing. — Unknown Author
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to… — Themistocles
Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a… — Joel Stein
The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of the fiddle, harp… — Jim Sinclair
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's… — Francis Bacon
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name… — Charles Spurgeon
Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't… — James Connolly
We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp. — Ernesto Cardenal
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it. — Diane Paulus
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. — D. H. Lawrence
Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage… — H. Rider Haggard
Not all who own a harp are harpers. — Marcus Terentius Varro
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis

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