Marshes Quotes - Page 3

• The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Race, Humanity, Genius

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• We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mosquitoes, Dry, Exit

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• There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ciencia, Hombres, Ideas

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• In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Bridges, Broken, Expectations

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2008). “The Narrative Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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• Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Rivers, Years, Cities

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section,

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• Así comencé mi recorrido sistemático, aunque medio desconcertado, por los estrechos y sombríos caminos de Innsmouth. Cruzando el puente y girando hacia el rugido de las cataratas inferiores, pasé cerca de la refinería Marsh, que parecía extrañamente libre del ruido de la industria. El edificio se alzaba sobre el escarpado acantilado del río, cerca de un puente y de una confluencia abierta de calles que consideré el primer centro cívico, desplazado tras la Revolución por la actual plaza de la ciudad.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Otoño, plazas, puentes

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). "La sombra de Innsmouth", p.24, Simon and Schuster.

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• Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

  Ellie Kendrick

  Drama, Thinking, Pie

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.

  Susan Hill

  Writing, Thinking, Ghost Stories

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Tree, Generations

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.

  Betsy King

  Dog, Beach, Joy

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• No podemos aliarnos con los príncipes vecinos mientras no conozcamos sus designios. No somos aptos para dirigir un ejército en marcha a menos que estemos familiarizados con la faz del país: sus montañas y bosques, sus escollos y precipicios, sus pantanos y ciénagas. No podremos aprovechar las ventajas naturales a menos que nos sirvamos de guías locales.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Art, War

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.

  Thomas Starr King

  Book, Toil, Needs

  Thomas Starr King (1880). “Christianity and Humanity ...: Ed., with a Memoir”

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• Este miedo es lo que nos arruina a todos. Y algunos nos dominan; se aprovechan de nuestro miedo y nos atemorizan aún más. Fijaos en esto: mientras la gente tenga miedo, se pudrirá como los abedules en el pantano. Debemos ser valientes; ¡ya es hora!

  Máximo Gorki

  Long, People, Ruins

  Maxim Gorky (2015). “Mother”, p.20, Booklassic

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• Allí, en el centro de aquel silencio no estaba la eternidad, sino la muerte del tiempo y una soledad tan profunda que la propia palabra carecía de significado. Porque la soledad suponía la ausencia de otras personas, y la soledad que ella encontró en aquel terreno desesperado nunca había admitido la posibilidad de otras personas. Entonces lloró. Lágrimas por la muerte de las cosas más pequeñas: los zapatos náufragos de los niños; tallos rotos de hierba de los pantanos maltratados y ahogados por el mar; fotografías de graduación de mujeres muertas a las que nunca conoció; anillos de boda en los escaparates de las casas de empeño; los diminutos cuerpos de las gallinas de Cornualles en un nido de arroz.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Loneliness, Sea

  Toni Morrison (1987). "Sula"

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• La ciencia investiga, la religión interpreta. La ciencia da al hombre conocimiento, que es poder; la religión, sabiduría, que es control. La ciencia se ocupa principalmente de los hechos, la religión de los valores. Ambas no son rivales. Son complementarias.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Men, Two

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart, 1963.

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• Y, después de presumir así de mi tolerancia, llego a admitir que tiene un límite. La conducta puede fundarse en la roca dura o en los pantanos húmedos, pero a partir de cierto punto no me importa en qué se funda. Cuando regresé de Oriente el otoño pasado, sentí que quería que el mundo estuviera uniformado y en una especie de atención moral para siempre; no quería más excursiones desenfrenadas con atisbos privilegiados del corazón humano. Sólo Gatsby, el hombre que da nombre a este libro, quedó exento de mi reacción: Gatsby, que representaba todo aquello por lo que siento un desprecio incondicional.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Libro, Corazón, Otoño

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Las novelas completas (Casa del Libro)", p.383, Casa del Libro.

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• One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Queens, Book

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.134, e-artnow

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• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

  Paullina Simons

  Padre, Hijo, Saber

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• I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.

  Michael Gove

  Past, Years, Numbers

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• the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Fire, Smell

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• Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Best Effort, People, Use

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• Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver with an armed force. Unless you use local guides, you cannot get the advantages of the land.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Land

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.121, Shambhala Publications

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• Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.

  Richard Eder

  Night, Mind, Bed

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• Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.

  Mark Helprin

  Dream, Memories, Children

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• I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Madre, Hijos, Mentir

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1452, Delphi Classics

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