Quotes About Colors
the Palestinian colors. White our deeds, black our battles, green our fields, red our swords.
~ Colum McCann
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If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Where he walked the tideline at dusk the last red reaches of the sun flared slowly out along the sky to the west and the tidepools stood like spills of blood. He stopped to look back at his bare footprints. Filling with water one by one. The reefs seemed to move slowly in the last hours and the late colors of the sun drained away and then the sudden darkness fell like a foundry shutting down for the night.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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If you have a patient with a condition that's not understood why not ascribe it to a disorder that is also not understood? Autism occurs in males more than it does in females. So does higher order mathematical intuition. We think: What is this about? Dont know. What is at the heart of it? Dont know. All I can tell you is that I like numbers. I like their shapes and their colors and their smells and the way they taste. And I dont like to take people's word for things.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The sweeter the more lethal, Squire. Oh you do occasionally find one who flies her true colors. It's even refreshing in a way. A bitch to the teeth, fair field and no favor. Dried scrotums strung on a cord hanging from the footboard. But these other ones. The shy smile and the downturned eyes. Jesus. Spare me. What has happened to our cavalier, John?
~ Cormac McCarthy
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White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony.... White, Red, and Black, He said, wiping the blade clean on his sleeve. Snow white colors. That's what my brother use to call them. He liked that story a lot. But who would have thought they had such power.
~ Cornelia Funke
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Los atardeceres eran increíbles. Algunos días solían ser morados y rosas, otros días era como un abrasador naranja prendiéndole fuego a las nubes en el horizonte. -Juli
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
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The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest...
~ Charles Tennyson Turner
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Of course everything is blooming most recklessly: if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sun coaxes life from the earth with its warmth — Grow, thrive, breathe green things of the land wake from your winter's nap and joyously reach for the spring — Colors burst into vibrant being — fresh fireworks on verdant stems of life
~ Terri Guillemets
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The sunrise opened above them like some cosmic explosion, shining and shattering and yet silent; as if the world were blown to pieces without a sound. Round the rays of the victorious sun swept a sort of rainbow of confused and conquered colours — brown and blue and green and flaming rose-colour; as though gold were driving before it all the colours of the world.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Clouds blaze brilliant colors in a sky on fire.
~ Terri Guillemets
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
~ Winston Churchill, 1932
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Some of the most beautiful blues and purples in nature, for instance, are those of mountains in shadow against amber sky...
~ John Ruskin, "Colour," 1870
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Colors of the summer sun illuminate the meadow. Gold, the massed gold of hawkweed; the burnished gold of black-eyed Susans; the delicate, demure gold of stargrass, cousin of the daffodil; and the sun's very rays captured by the field's wild sunflowers.
~ Hal Borland, Seasons, 1973
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Now rising you may see with naked eye The brilliant Star in Corde Scorpii, Whose changing colours on a Summer's night, When culminating, shine so clear and bright, And twinkling change with red and silver light.
~ Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE)
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Day holds the sky with big blue arms Until the sun sends her off into evening With a grateful blaze of vibrant colors
~ Terri Guillemets
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Our souls are infinitely swirling colors of stardust and hope.
~ Terri Guillemets
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Winter is the slow-down Winter is the search for self Winter gives the silence we need to listen Winter goes gray so we can see our own colors...
~ Terri Guillemets
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Flowers are fragrant metaphors— Happy colors sing "Carpe diem!" Wilting whispers "Memento mori."
~ Terri Guillemets
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I love crayons — especially new crayons with no broken tips. I love how they smell — and how smooth they feel between my fingers. I love imagining what marvelous pictures the crayons will create. But what I love most of all are the colors — so many colors.
~ Mary Wince
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The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?
~ Richard P. Feynman
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Oh, my dear. My young wife. When the troops come home after the victory, and you do not see me, please look at the proud colors. You will see me there, and you will feel warm under the shadow of the bamboo tree.
~ Harold G. Moore
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heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it,—which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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