Dew Quotes - Page 4

Dew depends not on Parliament.

Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.

I walked exclusively on the sidewalks. I was a city girl. I've never been countrified.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.

Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben’s reflexes had saved him. “Please stop doing that!” Ben barked. “Please keep doing that!” Hi warbled.

I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew.