Harps Quotes
107 Harps quotes by 89 unique authors
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Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.
— Hildegard of Bingen
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Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who…
— Ridgely Torrence
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Your body is the harp of the soul.
— Khalil Gibran
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I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
— Joanna Newsom
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I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
— Joanna Newsom
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I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
— Joanna Newsom
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He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple…
— Maximus the Confessor
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What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?
— Denis Norden
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What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their…
— Richard Louv
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Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.
— Little Walter
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A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even…
— Bruce Nash
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A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they…
— David Berg
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We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save…
— Herbert Lockyer
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It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to…
— David Berg
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The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more…
— William Shakespeare
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over…
— Oscar Wilde
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And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in…
— John Keble
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The willow tree plays the water like a harp.
— Ramon Gomez de la Serna
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My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I…
— David
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Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while…
— Diogenes
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things…
— Vanilla Ice
Who Wrote These Harps Quotes
89 authors contributed a total of 107 Harps Quotes, led by these top contributors: