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Small Quotes by Theodore Roethke
- And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would…
- To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
- I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains…
- My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.…
- Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
- But still the delicate slips keepcoaxing up water; The small cells bulge; One nub of growth Nudges a sand-crumb loose,
More Small Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. — Mahmoud Abbas