Marsh Quotes

52 quotes by 46 authors

Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
Swampy [ Marsh] and I live as far away from each other as we possibly can and still work together. But we just always felt… — Dan Povenmire
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of… — Walter Scott
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of… — John Updike
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality… — Mark Helprin
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly… — Wystan Hugh Auden
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.… — Aldo Leopold
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch… — Elizabeth Strout
Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am… — Brandon Sanderson
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison. — Chris Wooding
She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through… — Nora Roberts
the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and… — C.S. Lewis
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving… — Rachel Carson
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from… — Paullina Simons
You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that… — Italo Calvino
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Who Wrote These Marsh Quotes

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