Softly Quotes

506 Softly quotes by 334 unique authors

Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices… — Adelaide Anne Procter
In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with… — George Mikes
There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and… — Frederick Lenz
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly. — Catherine the Great
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad… — Carla Bley
I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and… — T Bone Burnett
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song. — Roberta Flack
I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh… — Jack Gilbert
I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for… — Thalassa Cruso
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way--… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. — Fred Rogers
One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I… — Ricky Williams
The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly… — Bear Bryant
As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed in their soft… — Neltje Blanchan
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder… — Neltje Blanchan
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak… — Theodore Roosevelt
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else. — Ann Landers
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly… — John Muir
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson
It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but… — Vera Nazarian
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a… — D. H. Lawrence
Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter. — Gerald R. Ford

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