Walked Quotes
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Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
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More Walked Quotes
How would your life be different if … You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day … You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
steve maraboli— p. 109 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
ernest hemingway— Ch. 10 (True at First Light (1999))
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
shirley jackson— Ch. 1 (The Haunting of Hill House (1959))
The idea (for the painting ‘Room in New York’, 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it’s no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.
Edward Hopper— 'Such a Life'’, in Life 102, August 1935, p. 48
She walked down the aisle with all eyes on her and she glowed Someone chose her above all other women they had known I can only wonder what it must be like to be so perfect in a lover's eyes, the only one they see Well, it’s never been me, the chosen one It’s never been me If ever I see a chosen one I feel ugly
happy rhodes— "Chosen One" - YouTube video
One night as I walked in the desert the mountains rode on my shoulders and the sky became my heart , and the earth - my own body, I explored. Every object began to wink at me, and Mira wisely calculated thinking, My charms must be at their height now would be a good time to rush into his arms, maybe He won't drop me so quick.
— Mira Bai, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.
james thomas fields— The Owl-Critic, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Doesn't she know that numberless women have walked past mirrors hoping for a hint of Bacall's slinkiness?
Henry Southworth Allen— 1994 Of Lauren Bacall at age 70. In the Washington Post, 27 Oct.
One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An'taking home a'load' with manly pride; My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an' lay down by my side. Then we sang 'It's all fair weather when good fellowsget together,' Till a lady passing by was heard to say: 'You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses', And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
Benjamin Hapgood Burt— 1933 'The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away'.
They walked and eat, good folks: What then? Why then they walked and eat again: They soundly slept the night away: They did just nothing all the day.
Matthew Prior— 1718 'An Epitaph', l.9-12.
The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But Over the hills and far away?
Robert Louis Stevenson— 1878 'A Song of the Road', stanza1 (dated'Forest of Montargis, 1878'), collected in Underwoods (1887), bk.1, no.2.
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
charlie chaplin— My Autobiography (1964)
Kerner's father was worth a couple of millions. He was willing to stand for art, but he drew the line at the factory girl. So Kerner disinherited his father and walked out to a cheap studio and lived on sausages for breakfast and on Farroni for dinner.
o. henry— "The Fool-Killer"
Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads of Palestine-the Son of God-to teach us the way of truth and light and salvation, and who, in one great and glorious act offered an atonement for each of us. He opened the way of salvation and exaltation for each of us, under which we may go forward in the Church and kingdom of God. Be not faithless, but believe in the great and wonderful and marvelous blessings of the Atonement.
gordon b. hinckley— Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Mar. 2001, 64.
In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.
bob hope— Obituary, Television Week, 4 August 2003
I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way
Adrian Mitchell— "To Whom It May Concern", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991)
— Written in 1965, after hearing British troops might be sent to the Vietnam War.
I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
Adrian Mitchell— "The Liberal Christ Gives a Press Conference", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991)
The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts
andrei tarkovsky— On being told that his film Stalker should be faster and more dynamic by officials at Goskino.
With the man I love who loves me not I walked in the street-lamps' flare —But oh, the girls who can ask for love In the lights of Union Square.
sara teasdale— Union Square
"I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway; "I walked with the beggar along the road, I kissed the bondsman stung by the goad, I bore my half of the porter's load. And what did you do," my Lord will say, "As you traveled along the King's highway?"
— Robert Davies, My Lord and I.
At dawn they came and took you away. You were my dead: I walked behind. In the dark room children cried, the holy candle gasped for air.
Robert F. Thiemann— The Humble Sublime: Secularity and the Politics of Belief
Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take and took.
robert frost— "Bravado" (1947)
I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.
judith krug— "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times (January 18, 1997)
Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was nobody any longer wanted to be that.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— C 36 (Notebook C (1772-1773))
Here we are folks The dream we all dream of Boy versus girl in the World Series of love Tell me, have U got the look? U walked in (I walked in) I woke up (U woke up) I never seen a pretty girl look so tough' baby (baby) U got that look, yes U do (yes U do) Color U peach and black Color me takin' aback, baby Crucial, I think I wantcha.
prince— U Got the Look
I have prayed in her fields of poppies, I have laughed with the men who died But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands, In the battles' glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand.
— Gordon Johnstone, On Fields of Flanders. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.
