Swallows Quotes

105 quotes by 99 authors

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like… — John Updike
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can. — Jane Hirshfield
It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a… — William Carlos Williams
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be… — Rodney Collin
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a… — Anderson Cooper
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or… — Michael Robotham
If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Reading is the creative center of a writerâ€™s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of… — Stephen King
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but… — Flora Thompson
The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of… — P.J. O'Rourke
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun,… — Elwyn Brooks White
To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know. — Amy Lowell
IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything.… — Morihei Ueshiba
One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids. — Etgar Keret
Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things — Simon Van Booy
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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