Wreath Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career…
— Hillary Clinton
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A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath that circles Autumn's…
— James Grahame
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The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from…
— Hudson Maxim
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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem
— John Milton
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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God.…
— Basilea Schlink
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists…
— James Keller
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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign…
— John Donne
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When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
— Pippa Middleton
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I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
— Margaret Atwood
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Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between,…
— John Clare
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He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
— George Jones
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too…
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas…
— Eugene O'Neill
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The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia…
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to…
— Matthew Arnold
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HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head…
— Raven Grimassi
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And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city,…
— Milan Kundera
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The…
— Emily Dickinson
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