Backgrounds Quote by Friedrich Schiller Download Open image “O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?” — Friedrich Schiller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backgrounds Knows Sleep Slumber Time
wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“The thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in… — Don Delillo Copy Share
The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are the people of the day, and the creatures of the night. And it's important to remember that the creatures of the night… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Water began to drip steadily through the dormer window. Outside, in the treacherous city, a thaw had come, giving the streets the unreliable consistency of wet cardboard. Slow masses of whiteness slid from sloping, grey-slate roofs. The footprints of delivery vans corrugated the slush. First light; and the dawn chorus began, chattering of road-drills, chirrup of burglar alarms, trumpeting of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Meridian First daylight on the bittersweet-hung sleeping porch at high summer; dew all over the lawn, sowing diamond- point-highlighted shadows; the hired man's shadow revolving along the walk, a flash of milkpails passing; no threat in sight, no hint anywhere in the universe, of that apathy at the meridian, the noon of absolute boredom; flies crooning black lullabies in the… — Amy Clampitt Copy Share
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
