Blueblack Quotes & Sayings

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him. — Robert Hayden

We generally colour our ideas of the unknown with our notions of the known. — Fernando Pessoa

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker. — Tracy Morgan

The national characteristics ... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro. — Lawrence Durrell

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one. — Gilda Radner

But when it did, when the first American fell to his knees, the government was ill prepared for the fallout and the sickness spread like wildfire. — Madeline Sheehan

The great bronze gate began to crack,
The sea broke in at every crack,
Pellmell, blueblack. — Sylvia Plath

I hate when people say, "Oh, you're just a teenager," or "It's hormonal." It's like, if a woman is agitated one day, people go, "Oh, she's on her period." That's such garbage. I think I was dealing with a combination of my own inner demons and resentment toward my parents from my earlier days. — Katy Rose

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. — Albert Einstein

A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions. — Robin S. Sharma

The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet. — Brad Warner

It was passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites. — Robert E. Howard

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny. — Johann Sebastian Bach

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do. — John Wooden

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things. — Sylvia Plath

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps. — Duane Chapman

Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey ... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl. — Carmen Ejogo

If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy. — Herb Brooks

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied. — Margaret Mead