Hymns Quote by Greg Mortenson

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The stranger knew this song, for he sang it too. He sang it through the tears of an unanswered longing, through the sorrow of…

— Dallas Mullican

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever…

— Joyce Rupp

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“In the distance I hear a song - a simple song - a song of despair - a song of longing and a song…

— Pietros Maneos

“I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully. Not as the reproachful warning clang of…

— Sven Anders Hedin

“I hummed love songs, silent love songs the words of which I’ve forgotten, sang to myself for nights on end, never tiring of praising…

— Helmut Krausser

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

“It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I was so burned and emaciated and ill that I staggered through the streets like a drunk. Some of the locals turned their backs…

— Alistair Urquhart

“The rolling sound of a good hymn badly sung is particularly evocative.”

— Iain Pears

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

— Audie Murphy