Tread Quotes

215 quotes by 168 authors

Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old?… — Thomas Hood
O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! — Edmund Spenser
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes… — William Cowper
But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we… — William Cowper
Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. — John Milton
I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive… — Colley Cibber
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient… — John Keats
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And… — Abraham Cowley
Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. — Robert Greene
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites. — Bayard Taylor
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!. — Matthew Arnold
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled… — Stanislaw Lem
What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says… — Andrew Ryan
Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And… — Helen Hunt Jackson
When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me… — Merrill Markoe
I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine… — Billy Connolly
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And… — John Dryden
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

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