Roaring Quotes
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More Roaring Quotes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
— 1 Peter 5:8
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring; And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
anne brontë— 1846 'Line Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms 22:1.
"Be thine despair and sceptred care; To triumph, and to die, are mine." He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
thomas gray— The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, lines 141-4 (1757).
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
ralph waldo emerson— 10 December 1824
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
william hazlitt— "Common Places," No. 60, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)
I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They’re rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
robert e. howard— From a letter to Harold Preece (c. January or February 1928)
Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.
georges rouault— Le Cirque de l'étoile filante. (1938)
That man’s best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature’s infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
lydia maria child— Source: Letters from New York,vol. 1, letter 38.
'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
john gay— The What D'ye Call It (1715), Act II, sc. viii.
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.
john muir— "Three Adventures in the Yosemite", The Century Magazine volume LXXXIII, number 5 (March 1912) pages 656-661 (at page 661); modified slightly and reprinted in The Yosemite (1912), chapter 4: Snow Banners
And in the lonely cool before dawn, you hear their engines roaring on. But when you get to the porch they're gone On the wind, so Mary climb in. It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.
Bruce Springsteen— "Thunder Road"
Like the ostrich, head under wing When the roaring storm breaks, So many people take refuge Under the soft pillow Of specious arguments.
georges rouault— Georges Rouault, Le Cirque de l'étoile filante. (1938).
The south-west wind roaring in from the Atlantic.... is, I think the presiding genius of England.
hilaire belloc— Hilaire Belloc, Places, 1940.
Your isle, which stands As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable, and roaring waters.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 1, line 18.
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
— Robert E. Howard in a letter to Harold Preece (c. January or February 1928)
Ye living soldiers of the mighty war, Once more from roaring cannon and the drums And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes; Forgot the halting limb, each wound and scar: Once more your Captain calls to you; Come to his last review!
richard watson gilder— The Burial of Grant.
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
hilaire belloc— "The Pacifist"
Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged roaring, and all the wave was in a flame: And down the wave and in the flame was borne A naked babe, and rode to Merlin's feet, Who stoopt and caught the babe, and cried "The King! Here is an heir for Uther!"
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in Idylls of the King, The Coming of Arthur
It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one, a savage city, yet it had such tenderness, a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone and steel and tunnelled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate.
Thomas Clayton Wolfe— 1939 TheWeb and the Rock (published1939), ch.30.
On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billowsAssail the stern rock, and the loud tempests rave,The hero lies still, while the dew-drooping willows,Like fond weeping mourners, lean over his grave.The lightnings may flash and the loud thunders rattle;He heeds not, he hears not, he's free from all pain;He sleeps his last sleep, he has fought his last battle;No sound can awake him to glory again!
lyman heath— The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!
— Philip Faulconbridge, scene ii
