Swells Quotes

56 Swells quotes by 50 unique authors

Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod.… — Coventry Patmore
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds… — Oliver Goldsmith
Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a… — John Burroughs
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. — William C. Bryant
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads… — Norman Mailer
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude… — Isaac Babel
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without… — Samuel Johnson
When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my… — Martin Luther
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald
The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand… — James Longstreet
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. — Alan Seeger
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Unknown Author
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can… — Mark Twain
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him… — Thomas Gray
Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears… — Martiros Saryan
Toil of science swells the wealth of art. — Friedrich Schiller
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week… — Karl Kraus
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress. — Horace
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
I get really bad plane bloat. Your body and your face and everything swells. I could never get rid of it. It stays with you. — Rebecca Romijn
Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up. — Charles R. Swindoll
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides… — Ralph Ellison
Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy. — Jackie Gleason

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