Murmuring Quotes
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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)
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))
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.
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.
The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.
George Crabbe— 1785 The Newspaper, l.158.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring.
Tennyson— 1863 'Milton: Alcaics', l.9-10.
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— Book ii. Stanza 17.
Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes,Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
Robert Burns— Sweet Afton, st. 1 (1789)
On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.
thomas campbell— Part I, line 385.
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)
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))
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.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
gaston bachelard— Ch. 2, sect. 2
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)
Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.
john milton— Line 141. (Il Penseroso (1631))
He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: "You're marvelous."
anaïs nin— The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
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
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.
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.
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))
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
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
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
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.
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
