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You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices. — Helene Cardona
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices. — Helene Cardona
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.
— Emma Donoghue
Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
— Henry David Thoreau
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.
— George Herbert
You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.
— Louis Armstrong
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
— Samuel Wilberforce
Wow. Tough crowd." Ty hummed and looked down at his hands, beginning the tune to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic.
— Abigail Roux
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
— Lord Byron
A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
— Jamey Johnson
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now i see. — John Newton
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now i see. — John Newton
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
— Wynton Marsalis
Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song,
— Luis Alberto Urrea
The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.
— Greg Mortenson
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
— Alexis Carrel
And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.
— Pablo Neruda
May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"
— Danny Baker
He was singing a hillbilly song that sounded half like a love song and half like a hymn.
— Flannery O'Connor
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
— Frank Muir
Well, set the monster free ... he's begun his hymn, because he finds it all so easy ... but I'd give a quadrillion quadrillion for two seconds of joy.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In Springtime, O Dionysos,
To thy holy temple come,
To Elis with thy Graces,
Rushing with thy bull-foot, come,
Noble Bull, Noble Bull — Plutarch
To thy holy temple come,
To Elis with thy Graces,
Rushing with thy bull-foot, come,
Noble Bull, Noble Bull — Plutarch
On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic
— Laura Amy Schlitz
It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
— G.H. Hardy
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..
— John Betjeman
After a lustre of the moon, we say
We have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn. — Wallace Stevens
We have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn. — Wallace Stevens
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.
— Henry Van Dyke
And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
— Pablo Neruda
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.
— Emma Donoghue
I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated. — Helene Cardona
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated. — Helene Cardona
I have a hymn."
"You're going to sing?"
"No. Sorry. I have a hymen. I get them mixed up. — Tiffany Reisz
"You're going to sing?"
"No. Sorry. I have a hymen. I get them mixed up. — Tiffany Reisz
'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Different kinds of crazy hurt in similar ways, like being stoned to death versus being burned at the stake.
— Hymn Herself
I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator.
— Robert Muller
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
— Madame De Stael
The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.
— James Ellis
Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and, more unexpectedly, the first novel to feature a werewolf.
— Bill Bryson
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
— Victor Hugo
Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.
— Edward M Hays
Hymn sheets; we're not even the slightest bit compatible.
— Suzanne Wright
And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn ...
— D.H. Lawrence
I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin. — Helene Cardona
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin. — Helene Cardona
In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word ... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.
— The Refined Poet