Murmur Quotes

98 quotes by 90 authors

Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain,… — Bonnie D. Parkin
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… — Octavio Paz
As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some… — Celia Thaxter
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. — Hannah More
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and â€˜the publicâ€™s right to knowâ€™;… — Janet Malcolm
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. — Maya Angelou
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… — Samuel Johnson
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some… — Samuel Johnson
In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have… — Clinton Scollard
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. — William Shenstone
Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at… — Thomas Jefferson
When you see your body wasted away through sickness, do not murmur against God, but say: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;… — John of Kronstadt
Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial. — T. B. Joshua
Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion… — Alan Turing
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night… — Thomas Gray
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never… — Clive Barker
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? — William Cowper
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release â€” out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride… — Terry Eagleton

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