Best Trumpets Thoughts
180 Trumpets quotes by 150 unique authors
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In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
— William Shakespeare
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…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living…
— John Dryden
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Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
— Charles Dickens
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I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet;…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
— Jeanette Winterson
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...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
— Daniel Handler
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Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup…
— Teresa Medeiros
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It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the…
— Amy Carmichael
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Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed…
— William Shakespeare
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Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so…
— Mira Grant
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Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me…
— John Bunyan
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Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out,…
— Fred Rogers
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High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A…
— Aldo Leopold
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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