We Lay Quotes

51 quotes by 42 authors

• He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. — Matthew Arnold
• Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. — Henry David Thoreau
• As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. — Ellen G. White
• The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is… — William Wordsworth
• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. — William Wordsworth
• Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes… — William Shakespeare
• What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said.… — Jack Kerouac
• We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
• I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all… — Samuel Beckett
• We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. — Jack Kerouac
• We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection… — Elizabeth Gaskell
• Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless… — Moderata Fonte
• I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,… — Walt Whitman
• WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad… — Pema Chodron
• When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let… — Ann Voskamp
• There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view… — Patti Smith
• I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here,… — S.J. Watson
• We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your… — John Fowles
• As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone. — Tammara Webber
• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for… — Olive Schreiner

Who Wrote These We Lay Quotes

42 authors contributed a total of 51 We Lay Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 We Lay Quotes by Unknown Author
• 3 We Lay Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
• 3 We Lay Quotes by William Wordsworth
• 2 We Lay Quotes by Jack Kerouac
• 2 We Lay Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 1 We Lay Quote by Richard Codey
• 1 We Lay Quote by Brian Andreas
• 1 We Lay Quote by Matthew Arnold
• 1 We Lay Quote by Ellen G. White
• 1 We Lay Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 We Lay Quote by Ian Mcewan
• 1 We Lay Quote by Samuel Beckett
• 1 We Lay Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell
• 1 We Lay Quote by Moderata Fonte
• 1 We Lay Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 We Lay Quote by Pema Chodron
• 1 We Lay Quote by Ann Voskamp
• 1 We Lay Quote by Patti Smith
• 1 We Lay Quote by S.J. Watson
• 1 We Lay Quote by Roger Angell
• 1 We Lay Quote by John Fowles
• 1 We Lay Quote by Richard Hovey
• 1 We Lay Quote by Tammara Webber
• 1 We Lay Quote by Olive Schreiner
• 1 We Lay Quote by Thomas Jefferson