Lane Quotes 

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.
Rabindranath Tagore
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This day, much against my will, I did in Drury lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension.

Samuel Pepys

— June 7, 1665
— Written during the Great Plague.

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Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees, (If love remains) In an English lane.

Robert Browning

— Men and Women, "De Gustibus" (1855)

Tags: ghost, walk, you, lover, trees, love, remains, English

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I'll walk down the lane with a happy refrain And singin' just singin' in the rain.

Arthur pseudonym of  Arthur Grossman Freed

— 'Singin' in the Rain' featured in Hollywood Revue of 1929 and other films, including the famous musical of the same title (music by Nacio Herb Brown).

Tags: walk, down, happy, refrain, singin', rain

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There'll always be an England While there's a country lane, Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.


— 1939  Song.

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But we grow old, Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Through all the circle of the golden year.

Tennyson

— 1846  'The GoldenYear', l.47-51.

Tags: we, grow, old, when, men's, good, man's, rule, universal

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I took a walk with my fame down memory lane / I never did find my way back"Feel no shame / 'coz time's no chain"

Noel Gallagher

— Hey Now

Tags: walk, fame, down, memory, never, find, shame, chain

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Get in the fast lane, Grandma, the bingo game's ready to roll!

mike lange

— Quoted in Michael Hasch and Karen Price, Ladies and gentlemen, Lange has left the building, Trib Live Sports (2006-06-30)

Tags: fast, Grandma, game's, ready, roll

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Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

pierre stephen robert payne

— The Romantic Agony, p. 157,

Tags: man, God's, blessing, advances, across, fields, universe, walking, down

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I don't live in the fast lane I live on the off ramp.

fred shero

— Liebman, Glenn, Hockey Shorts: 1,001 of the games funniest one liners

Tags: live, fast, ramp

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I was often in the pit lane the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

murray walker

— The Evening Standard Staff (June 21, 2007) "Evening Standard: F1 made me deaf, says Walker", The Evening Standard.

Tags: often, pit, noise, indescribable, doubt, hearing, affected

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You want to become competent at whatever you do. That does not mean to get phobics, who shake in their boots while their blood pressure blows through the roof, to believe, "This is not fear." The object is to get them to stay calm and alert, and to stay in their own lane, and to drive across the bridge, which remains standing.


— Richard Bandler, Time for a Change, 1993, p. 2–5

Tags: You, want, become, competent, mean, phobics, who, shake, boots

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tire swift swept front ly and lie and lane against

charles bernstein

— "disfrutes" (1974), first published in 1981 by Potes & Poets Press

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Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning, Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning; Never was owl more blind than a lover, Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over.

dinah maria mulock

— "Magnus and Morna", in Thirty Years, Poems New and Old (1880).

Tags: Drink, jolly, lads, discerning, there, turning, Never, owl, more

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Little houses in a row, Down a quiet lane; Neither doors nor windows know, Peace and darkness reign. Though you cannot pay the rent, You will dwell there with the best. Where the weary, broken, spent, Find eternal rest!

isaac leib peretz

— Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 126.

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When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock, And summer is near its close It's Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane; And dusk, and dew, and home again!

madison cawein

— Madison Cawein, In the Lane.

Tags: When, hornet, hangs, holly, hock, brown, bee, drones, rose

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You want to become competent at whatever you do. That does not mean to get phobics, who shake in their boots while their blood pressure blows through the roof, to believe, "This is not fear." The object is to get them to stay calm and alert, and to stay in their own lane, and to drive across the bridge, which remains standing.


— Richard Bandler, Time for a Change, 1993, p. 2–5

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Turfan (Turpan) is without doubt a forgotten Asian city of extraordinary interest. The size of it is remarkable: the inner, holy city, consisting only of temples and palace, measures 7,400 feet at the widest point of the still extant walls. Hundreds of terraced temples and grandiose vaulted edifices cover an extensive area of lane.


— "Along the Ancient Silk Routes" show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 3 - June 20, 1982

Tags: without, doubt, forgotten, Asian, city, extraordinary, interest, size, remarkable

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There'll always be an England, while there's a country lane. Wherever there's a cottage small, beside a field of grain


— Ross Parker and Hughie Charles, Song, 1939.

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But, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men , :;:; :;:; Gang aft a-gly, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain, :;:; :;:; For promis'd joy.


— Robert Burns,To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785).

Tags: art, proving, foresight, may, vain, best, laid, schemes, mice

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My sorrow when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be. She loves the bare, the withered tree, she walks the sodden pasture lane.

robert frost

— My November Guest.

Tags: sorrow, when, here, me, dark, days, autumn, rain, beautiful

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Bowling is everlasting because it does not have a point. In this way, the Dude: Makes his point at the end and finds he made it at the beginning; Rolls casually down the lane, and endures through strikes and gutters. Because he does not put himself over the line, he does not enter a world of pain.


— Ch. 7 : The Ball (The Dude De Ching (2010))

Tags: everlasting, point, Dude, Makes, end, finds, beginning, Rolls, casually

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Yet walk with me where hawthorns hide The wonders of the lane.


— Ebenezer Elliott, The Wonders of the Lane, line 3.

Tags: Yet, walk, me, hawthorns, hide, wonders

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   A Chancery lane young man, A Somerset House young man, Avery delectable, highly respectable, Threepenny-bus young man!

Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert

— 1881Bunthorne and Grosvenor's duet, Patience, act 2.

Tags: Chancery, young, man, Somerset, House, Avery, delectable, highly, respectable

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Theysay the closer yousittothestage, thebetterchance you have of winning. Angus Deayton is sitting in Row Gat theTheatre Royal, Drury lane.

Paul Merton

— 2003   At the BAFTA television awards night at the London Palladiumassessing his fellow TV presenter's chances, 13  Apr.

Tags: closer, you, winning, Angus, sitting, Row, Royal, Drury

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For thefuture I cease,Deathapproaches with little delay, Since the dragons of Laune and lane and Lee are destroyed; I'll follow the heroes far from the light of day, The princes myancestors followed before Christ died.

Egan Gaelic name  Aodhaga  n OŁ   Rathaille O'Rahilly

— c.1729  Closing lines of his last known poem, translated from the Irish by Owen Dudley Edwards.

Tags: little, delay, dragons, Laune, Lee, destroyed, follow, heroes, far

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No Drury lane for you to-day.

james smith

— Rejected Addresses, "The Baby's Début", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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You see, ten years ago it was the front seat Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain. Now here I am straight and sittin' in the back Hitting Sixteen Parkside lane.

harry chapin

— Sequel

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Straight down the Crooked lane, And all round the Square.

thomas hood

— A Plain Direction, st. 1.

Tags: Straight, down, Crooked, round, Square

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For the future I cease, Death approaches with little delay, Since the dragons of Laune and lane and Lee are destroyed; I’ll follow the heroes far from the light of day, The princes my ancestors followed before Christ died.


— Closing lines of his last known poem (c.1729)
— Translated from the Irish by Owen Dudley Edwards, as quoted in Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 626

Tags: future, cease, Death, approaches, little, delay, dragons, Laune, Lee

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