Hum Quotes

170 quotes by 147 authors

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their… — Ernest Gaines
So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life. — Winston Groom
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If… — Kent Nerburn
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney
The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it. — Marvin Hamlisch
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like… — Keith Jarrett
We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to… — Barack Obama
The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues,… — Alberta Hunter
We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism. — Charb
And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears,… — Marya Hornbacher
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… — Thomas Carlyle
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. — John Milton
Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? — John Keats
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round… — Samuel Rogers
When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When… — Emily Carr
If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until… — Will Rogers
Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence. — Edward M Hays
A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems… — Cameron Dokey
All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while… — Jeff VanderMeer
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. — Anna Julia Cooper

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