Larks Quotes

66 Larks quotes by 57 unique authors

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had… — Ben Affleck
Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy… — F B Meyer
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while… — Dizzy Gillespie
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have… — Mark Twain
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department… — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their… — Charles Dickens
My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I… — Amy Weber
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I… — Hanna Reitsch
We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I… — Peter O'Toole
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me… — William Ernest Henley
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for… — Colleen McCullough
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They… — Alexander Pope
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. — Edmund Waller
Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it. — Huey Lewis
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your… — William Davenant
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The… — Hector Berlioz
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one… — William Wordsworth
Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely… — Kelly Corrigan
A late lark twitters from the quiet skies. — William Ernest Henley
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time… — Jerry Reed
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there,… — Maya Lin
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a… — Mary McLeod Bethune
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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