Silvery Quotes
39 quotes by 32 authors
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Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
— Abu Yahya al-Libi
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Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches…
— Lucy Irvine
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That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her…
— Joan Bennett
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave…
— Alexander MacLaren
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The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.
— Heather O'Neill
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Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.
— Mark Helprin
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Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its…
— Sheng-yen
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Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.
— Sheng-yen
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The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my…
— Anthony Burgess
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Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling…
— William Wordsworth
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Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.
— Thomas Hood
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And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance…
— Julia Caroline Dorr
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After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver,…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent,…
— Lucy Larcom
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He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with…
— Kim Edwards
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...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?
— Pope John Paul II
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Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
— Anthony Burgess
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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun.…
— Vladimir Nabokov
Who Wrote These Silvery Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 39 Silvery Quotes, led by these top contributors: