Whence Quotes

203 quotes by 181 authors

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. — John Milton
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen… — Samuel Rogers
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it… — John Muir
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe? — Geoffrey Chaucer
Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it… — Marcus Garvey
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to… — Max Planck
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to… — Erasmus Darwin
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from… — Joseph Conrad
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest… — Leonardo da Vinci
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that… — Black Elk
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? — Muhammad Iqbal
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are… — John F. Kennedy
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of… — Samuel Lover
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. — Christopher Marlowe

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