Hemlock Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their… — Alexander Hamilton
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next. — James Madison
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing… — Ray Bradbury
I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of… — Ann Voskamp
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably… — Virginia Woolf
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. — John Keats
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds… — Robert Pyle
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a… — Ernest Hemingway
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say? — Emily Dickinson
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. — Denis Diderot
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And… — Robert Frost
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there… — Oscar Wilde
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business. — Daniel Handler
The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of… — Thomas Berry
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations… — Grace Paley

Who Wrote These Hemlock Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Hemlock Quotes as follows: