Whereon Quotes

24 quotes by 21 authors

'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath… — James Russell Lowell
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly… — Robert Hooke
From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts… — Isaac Newton
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. — John Milton
The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its… — Max Nordau
It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and… — John Owen
In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism,… — Benjamin Graham
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… — Thomas Carlyle
Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall? — Huineng
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night. — James Russell Lowell
O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! — Edmund Spenser
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now… — Philip James Bailey
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. — Marcus Aurelius
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… — E. M. Forster
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run — Herman Melville
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the… — Herman Melville
A foundation in Christ was and is always to be a protection in days "when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where… — John Wilson
Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest! — Aleister Crowley
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they… — Ben Jonson

Who Wrote These Whereon Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 24 Whereon Quotes as follows: