Tolling Quotes

8 quotes by 7 authors

Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off… — Celia Thaxter
I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on… — Anais Nin
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting… — Carl Sagan
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,… — A. N. Wilson
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too… — Elizabeth Gaskell
And upside down in air were towers Tolling reminiscent bells, thatkept the hours And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists withdelight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Wrote These Tolling Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 8 Tolling Quotes as follows: