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Tag Name "Swallows" (60)

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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
Brigitte Bardot
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
Etgar Keret
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There are a few of the open-air spirits the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
William Butler Yeats
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The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows- The happy days unclouded to their close The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
William Hazlitt
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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
Honore de Balzac
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Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.
Jane Yolen
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Love is thick and it swallows me whole.
Alanis Morissette
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The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
John Keats
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Alexander Pope
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.
Ali Smith
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Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. ... Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.
Max Horkheimer
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
Anais Nin
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I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.
Pablo Neruda
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There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.
Arnold Gingrich
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Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.
Robin Givhan
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
Benjamin Franklin
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The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
Saul Bellow
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It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom by thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal
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One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.
Sonia Rykiel
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
Charles Lamb
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The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.
Stephen King
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