Best Marshes Quotes
66 Marshes quotes by 58 unique authors
-
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
-
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
-
Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia,…
— H. L. Mencken
-
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
-
Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for…
— Sylvia Earle
-
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
-
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
-
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or…
— Lloyd Jones
-
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
-
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt…
— Henry Miller
-
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
-
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina…
— Pat Conroy
-
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
— Margaret Atwood
-
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
-
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the…
— Charles Dickens
-
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
-
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
More Ways to Read Marshes Quotes
Who Wrote These Marshes Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 66 Marshes Quotes, led by these top contributors: