Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the… — Virginia Woolf
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the… — Rebecca West
I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range. — Oscar Micheaux
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge. — Adam Weishaupt
One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but if you got… — Duane Allman
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. — Phil Plait
Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for… — Jamsetji Tata
I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I… — Unknown Author
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with… — Norman MacCaig
Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings… — George Polya
It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy.… — Lynn Redgrave
You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment… — Dennis Hastert
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay… — Sun Ra
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck… — Thomas Tusser
I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on… — Julia Margaret Cameron
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to… — Goldwin Smith
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects… — Greg Kramer
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of… — Henry David Thoreau
Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important… — Gloria Gaither
North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish… — Paul Watson
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground. — James Boswell
If you want to sue somebody, just get a little plastic skeleton and lay it in their yard. Then tell them their ants ate your… — Jack Handey
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. — August Strindberg
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves.… — Omar N. Bradley
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human… — Alexander McCall Smith

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