Urn Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would… — John Ruskin
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. — Horace
I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service. — Lynn Flewelling
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws… — William Cowper
Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round… — Nina Cassian
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'… — William Faulkner
Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. — Thomas Gray
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, â€” its hue, first… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. — Oscar Wilde
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the… — Margaret Atwood
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes… — William Faulkner
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
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn — Aeschylus
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies. — William Faulkner
Bren MacMacGuff: Juno, by any chance did you throw up in my urn? Because there was this funky blue shit in it. Juno: No, Bren,… — Juno (The Movie)

Who Wrote These Urn Quotes

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