Quotes About Unsung

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

A poet has a sacred duty. He has to hear unsung songs and see unseen beauty.

Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there...

Mom — the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die though, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa

The loudly good are often not the best of people; the intuitively good, to whom it may not occur ever to discuss what they do, let alone why they do it, may be morally unsung, but are heroes nonetheless.

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

purchased merely for their entertainment value. I always regarded Wanda as an unsung heroine without whose "nosiness" (I myself think of it as "situational awareness") John List might have continued to evade justice for the rest of his wretched days. Wanda died in 1997 at the age of sixty-five.

denn das Wachstum des Guten in der Welt hängt in gewissem Grade von unhistorischen Taten ab, und daß die Dinge für dich und mich nicht so schlecht bestellt sind, wie sie es hätten sein können, verdanken wir zum großen Teil jenen, die getreulich ein Leben im verborgenen gelebt haben und in Gräbern ruhen, die niemand besucht.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him.

We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.

It is what the unimportant do that really counts and determines the course of history. The greatest forces in the universe are never spectacular. Summer showers are more effective than hurricanes, but they get no publicity. The world would soon die but for the fidelity, loyalty and consecration of those whose names are unhonored and unsung.1

The handsome and the beautiful may earn the admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions of the future are a by-product of the unsung, anonymous scientists.

Without our realizing it, we were trained to think that the most significant people are star athletes, actors, and musicians—the ones we applaud, those whose autographs others seek. They aren't. Not really. Most often, the people worth noting are the individuals who turn a "nobody" into a "somebody" but never receive credit.