Meadows Quotes
190 Meadows quotes by 142 unique authors
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That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb…
— William C. Bryant
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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
— James Russell Lowell
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The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next…
— John Keats
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I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank,…
— John Ruskin
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You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we…
— Walter Darby Bannard
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off…
— Robert Genn
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The…
— John Muir
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The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
— John Muir
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No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly…
— John Muir
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy…
— John Muir
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Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will…
— George Gissing
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The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies…
— Ray Romano
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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
— William Wordsworth
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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of…
— Jerry Spinelli
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... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
— Annie Proulx
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates…
— Aimee Bender
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Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find
— Stephen Cosgrove
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I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all…
— William Boyd
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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Meadows Quotes
142 authors contributed a total of 190 Meadows Quotes, led by these top contributors: