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Cedars Quotes

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

Wallace Stevens
Winter, Snow, Cedars
Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.16, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

Dave Sitek
Thinking, Gold, Cedars

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

Emily Dickinson
Wind, Cedars, Drawers
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.795, Delphi Classics

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

David Guterson
Fate, Cedars, Coincidence
David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.212, A&C Black

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

David Guterson
Heart, Cedars, Humans
David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.233, A&C Black

The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

Wendell Berry
Sunday, Dancing, Cedars

Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the Cedar Program, and I recall going to one of my Olympic buddies and saying, "Hey, man, this might be a shot in the arm for us. Let's go down and apply for these Cedar jobs."I took a job as a gardener caretaker.

John Carlos
Jobs, Men, Cedars
Source: www.pbs.org

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Isaiah
Cutting, Cedars, Stones
The Bible (King James Version), Isaiah 9:10, quod.lib.umich.edu.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Knowledge, Knowing Everything, Cedars
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

John Milton
Views, Theatre, Cedars
John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.244

I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

David Guterson
Crazy, Thinking, Cedars
"Fictional character: Ishmael Chambers". "Snow Falling on Cedars", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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