Quickening Quotes

42 quotes by 37 authors

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of… — Martha Graham
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. — James Russell Lowell
It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those… — Neale Donald Walsch
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of… — James D. Watson
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums... — Mary Oliver
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish… — Charles Dickens
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky… — Mark Rothko
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others… — Ernest Becker
And none will hear the postmanâ€™s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own… — Gail Carriger
But it was definitely a car trailing me and quickly I prepared myself for a great dash. I began quickening my step and when it… — Melina Marchetta
I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat… — Rick Riordan
There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger. — Neal Shusterman
I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire… — John Donne
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith,… — A C Dixon
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. — Giacomo Puccini
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in… — Martha Graham
I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were… — Henry Cabot Lodge
As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' — Neale Donald Walsch
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship truly central and crucial in a life is the… — Jo Coudert

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