Skylark Bird Quotes & Sayings

Like the word hope, we often think of power as negative. It's not. The best definition of power comes from Martin Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to effect change. — Brene Brown

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce - it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a paradoxical and humble courage to grasp the whole temporal realm now by virtue of the absurd, and this is the courage of faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency. — Hank Johnson

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant. — Brian L. Roberts

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go? — Sarah Orne Jewett

A 2015 research report in the United Kingdom found that the main consumers of vinyl records that year were 18- to 24-year-olds, and research group MusicWatch noted that more than half of vinyl buyers were under 25. Not ageing, retro hipsters. Not crusty old dudes. — David Sax

A mother's rage was too incandescent to blaze unshaded. — T.C. Boyle

But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red. — Adele Griffin

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. — Arthur Helps

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless. — Nicole Polizzi

One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation. — Robert McNamara

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him. — Kate Atkinson

Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome — Hartley Coleridge

I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair. — Stacey Farber

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult. — Martine McCutcheon