Stirring Quotes

173 Stirring quotes by 153 unique authors

My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook,… — Hillary Scott
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in… — Emmeline Pankhurst
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect. — Kurt Busiek
The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and… — Gene Cernan
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored… — Dorothy Allison
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news… — Gary Ackerman
Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor. — Adam Driver
Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself. — Thomas a Kempis
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend… — Bill Nighy
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring… — George Eliot
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. — William Shakespeare
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow… — William Shakespeare
There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word. — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. — William Stafford
I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back… — Bayard Taylor
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith… — Leon Wieseltier
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. — Andre Gide
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their… — Denis Diderot
There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when… — Joyce Meyer
T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. — Clement Clarke Moore
The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing… — Ernest Shackleton
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. — Paul Tillich

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