Hyssops Quotes & Sayings

When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain
Like holy water falls upon the plain,
'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain
And see your harvest born.
And sweet the little breeze of melody
The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree,
While the wild poppy lights upon the lea
And blazes 'mid the corn. — Francis Ledwidge

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis. — Noam Chomsky

God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight. — K. Howard Joslin

While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler

Watch your character for your character is your destiny. — Winston Churchill

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations. — Christian Nestell Bovee

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There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who
DRAIN energy. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III

There are three kinds of power,
wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former. — Charles Caleb Colton

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you. — Mike Birbiglia

Just as Huckleberry Finn was published, the first generation of African Americans raised in the postslavery era began to come of age. Among them were people with musical talent, and at first they went to work in minstrelsy, in the well-worn patterns of show business they'd inherited. — Dennis McNally

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy. — Michael Phelps

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader. — Benjamin Tucker

To devote any time and thought to a rival is to diminish one's worth. I had my dignity. — Laura Rahme

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had. — Ric Ocasek