Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Quotation Search

To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the Search Instructions for details.

Results of search for Quote: TE - Page 397 of 795 Showing results 3961 to 3970 of 7949 total quotations found.
<- Previous Page	Pages: ... 394 395 396 397 398 399 400...	Next Page ->

Results from Classic Quotes:

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
- More quotations on: [Friendship]
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), Diary, 17 February 1922
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), D-Day, page 577
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887
- More quotations on: [Birds]
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.: Pat Conroy (1945 - ), The Prince of Tides
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
- More quotations on: [Television]
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.: William Bradford (1590 - 1657), Of Plymouth Plantation
- More quotations on: [Winter]
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), The Snow-Walkers
- More quotations on: [Writing] [Winter] [Summer]
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia
- More quotations on: [Winter]

<- Previous Page	Pages: ... 394 395 396 397 398 399 400...	Next Page ->
Results of search for Quote: TE - Page 397 of 795 Showing results 3961 to 3970 of 7949 total quotations found.