Marsh Quotes

52 quotes by 46 authors

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness… — William Beebe
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming… — Henry David Thoreau
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience… — Al-Ghazali
I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those… — Myrna Loy
I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking… — John Banville
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path… — Cameron Crowe
I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and… — Michael Gove
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush… — Pat Conroy
There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the… — Paul Harding
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur… — Ansel Adams
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find… — Virginia Woolf
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it… — Richard Eder
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh… — George Mercer Dawson
There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a… — Bobby Jindal
The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. — Mary MacLane
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight… — Rachel Carson
Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Who Wrote These Marsh Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 52 Marsh Quotes, led by these top contributors: