Harps Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Download Open image “O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Harps Life
“Unless you're ready to mount a cloud 'n' learn harp music, you better let go of me!” — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“so well is the harp of human feeling strung, that nothing but a crash that breaks every string can wholly mar its harmony;” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“It’s a shameful indictment of the shabby way we live nowadays, but we have to face the fact that most of you won’t have… — John Powell Copy Share Image
“On city harp strings ‘neath cotton ball clouds, Pigeon to pigeon their stories they sing, Wafting flocks gather in soft, cooing crowds; Amid rush… — Marie Helen Abramyan Copy Share Image
“A gull on an invisible wire attached through space dragged. You carry the symbol of your frustration into eternity. Then the wings are bigger… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“..Fell over the prostrate steersman, and there we all lay in a heep, two or three of us quite picturesque with the nosebleed.” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing… — Junior Wells Copy Share Image
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
