Quotes with faces

Quotes 61 till 80 of 88.

  • Archibald MacLeish Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • W. H. Auden The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Murray Kempton The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • Sir Walter Scott The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Charles Kingsley The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Willa Cather The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Jim Morrison The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Hermann Hesse The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Louise Erdrich The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bill Clinton This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.
    Inaugural Address, 20 January 1993
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Alice Walker Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Sir William Osler Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Bill Hybels Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carl Sagan We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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