Precedence Quote by Nathaniel Parker Willis Download Open image “The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.” — Nathaniel Parker Willis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Precedence Rose
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“In her right hand the lily, in her left The letter--all her bright hair streaming down-- And all the coverlid was cloth of gold Drawn to her waist, and she herself in white All but her face, and that clear-featured face Was lovely, for she did not seem as dead, But fast asleep, and lay as though she smiled.” — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share
“the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of… — Thérèse de Lisieux Copy Share Image
The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose. — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rose stood in the pitcher Rose bloomed well she was so beautiful exactly the as you — Canada Serdyuk Copy Share Image
“ The Lilly in a Christal You have beheld a smiling Rose When Virgins hands have drawn O’r it a Cobweb-Lawne: And here, you… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed?… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth! — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does not live… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and… — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains… — Martin Filler Copy Share
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky Copy Share Image
The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
![“Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c88/stephen-king-13_computer_kids-absolutely-not-reading-i-think-it-s_305090.jpg)
