Silent Quotes

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

It's weird to have to look at another co-worker and have a silent discussion - any discussion - about how you are going to touch their genitals or allow them to touch your genitals.

Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.

I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent.

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

The greatest griefs are silent.

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

When your woman gives you the silent treatment, say you're sorry, or you'll find out how truly sorry you are when her monologue resumes.

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

The breath of springtime at this twilight hour Comes through the gathering glooms, And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower Into my silent rooms.

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

This love is silent.

A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.

She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions.

The courage to live brings its own rewards.

One minute with a silent spirit of self-knowledge is enough to align you to put smiles on the face of the boring world. The world needs you! Yes it does!

You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.

No matter what, I would never let the people who wanted me to break see how much damage they had inflicted.

If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.

Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.- Breeze