Dove Quote by William Cowper Download Open image “Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.” — William Cowper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dove Sound Time Wings
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“His presence is not upon us to be commandeered or directed by us. Instead, we are tools in his hand. If there is a… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I always liked clothes when I was younger, but I never really dove into it. — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
I stopped playing video games, I stopped playing other sports, and I just dove head first into wrestling and it's been my passion ever… — Kevin Owens Copy Share Image
I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar… — Owen Feltham Copy Share
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but… — Antony Sher Copy Share
