Heaps Quotes

77 quotes by 66 authors

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore… — Joseph Addison
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps… — Theodore Bikel
Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod.… — Coventry Patmore
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the… — John Bagot Glubb
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. — Henry Ward Beecher
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took… — Margot Asquith
Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon… — Myrtle Reed
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...… — Charles Dickens
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish — Charles Reznikoff
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… — Wendell Berry
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many… — Lilian Katz
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the… — James Keller
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense. — John Galsworthy
Complicated lives and heaps of possessions donâ€™t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite. — Blake Mycoskie
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well… — Kurt Schwitters
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and… — Ezra Pound
I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together. — Emory Upton
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron… — Robinson Jeffers

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