Murmuring Quotes 

Butter not only wouldn’t melt in this mouth, it wouldn’t go in; one runs away, an urchin in the gutter and glad to be, murmuring: “The Queen of Spain has no legs.” ...One’s eyes widen; one sits the poet down in the porch swing, starts to go off to get her a glass of lemonade, and sees her metamorphosed before one’s eyes into a new Critique of Practical Reason... feminine gender...
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[T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.

william crookes

— As quoted in Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements (New Edition) by John Emsley (page 266)

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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

— Prelude (Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847))

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Where the long, slant rays are beaming, Where the shadows cool lie dreaming, Pale the Indian pipes are gleaming Laugh, O murmuring Spring!

Sarah Davis

— Sarah F. Davis, Summer Song.

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In the marsh pink orchid's faces, With their coy and dainty graces, Lure us to their hiding places , Laugh, O murmuring Spring!


— Sarah F. Davis, Summer Song, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 574.

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The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.

George Crabbe

— 1785  The Newspaper, l.158.

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There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring And such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep.

john milton

— c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.139-46.

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I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, And gentle odours led my steps astray, Mixed with a sound of water's murmuring Along a shelving bankof turf, which lay Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling Its green arms round the bosom of the stream, But kissed it and then fled, as thou mightst in dream.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

— 1822  'The Question', stanza1.

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   For as concerning football playing, I protest unto you it may be rather called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation, a bloody or murmuring practice than a fellowly sport or pastime.

Philip Stubbes

— 1583  Anatomie of Abuses in the Realme of England.

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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, With murmuring of innumerable bees.

Tennyson

— 1850  The Princess, pt.7, added song, l.203-7.

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All that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring.

Tennyson

— 1863  'Milton: Alcaics', l.9-10.

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Propinquity had brought Imagination to that pitch where it casts out All that is not itself. I had grown wild And wandered murmuring everywhere,'My child, my child.'


— 1939  'A Bronze Head', l.18-21. Collected in Last Poems (1939).

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The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. A bumblebee, sitting on that lotus is enjoying the romantic pleasure and murmuring passionate songs.

manmohan acharya

— Introduction

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A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

george william russell

— The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government (1921)

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Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.

william mackergo taylor

— P. 465. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

william wordsworth

— Three years she grew in Sun and Shower.

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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

gaston bachelard

— Ch. 2, sect. 2

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All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television.

ray bradbury

— The Wilderness (1952)

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To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

Nikos Kazantzakis

— On the Aegean Sea, in Ch. 2

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A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now ." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world , and shall blow for centuries yet.


— Æ, in The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government (1921), p. 23

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Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!

james beattie

— James Beattie, The Minstrel (1771), Book II, Stanza 17.

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Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, is required to set up in the grumbling business. But those that are moved by a genuine desire to do good have little time for murmuring or complaint.


— Robert West, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 420.

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Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.


— William Mackergo Taylor, p. 465. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

gaston bachelard

— Gaston Bachelard in: Ride the Waves: How to Take Control of Your Life One Emotion at a Time, FriesenPress, 2 April 2013, p.386

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Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father who would call us homeward towards Himself all these are the ground and justification for a Christian discontent; but a murmuring, questioning, fault-finding spirit has direct and sympathetic alliance with nothing but the infernal.


— Josiah Gilbert Holland, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 15.

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Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul they lose nothing who gain Christ.


— Samuel Rutherford, p. 444. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.


— Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), Canto VII, line 205

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The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

william wordsworth

— William Wordsworth, Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower

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A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.


— George W. Russell, The Economics of Ireland, p. 23.

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A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world , and shall blow for centuries yet.


— Æ, in The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government (1921), p. 23

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