Sill Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp… — Sigmund Freud
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel… — Nancy Byrd Turner
It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to… — Etty Hillesum
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God… — E. Stanley Jones
All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of… — Audrey Hepburn
She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill — John Hartford
Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheerâ€” An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy… — John Kendrick Bangs
No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be… — Greg Peterson
And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. — William C. Bryant
As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot… — Chuck Palahniuk
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body… — John Muir
In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a… — James Wright
A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead? — Robert Louis Stevenson
What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. — Ray Bradbury
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped… — Zora Neale Hurston
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against… — Theodore Roethke
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep.… — Banana Yoshimoto
But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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