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Quotes About Circled

I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was standing, finally, in the place where everything begins: the tree in the garden, the tree of knowledge that, as I learned long ago, is something divided, something that because growth occurs only through the medium of time, brings both pleasure and, finally, sorrow.
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!
~ John Armstrong
Jane circled the mansion, passing door after door, all too la-di-da for comfort.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
I sunk into velvety nothingness. It caressed my skin, lapped at my temples, the nape of my neck. It circled me like smoke, its touch light, but all consuming. And just as I was about to lose consciousness, I heard the voice. 'Hello, Kali. I'm Zev.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Ryan circled the pool, around the diving board, and moved down to the shallow end. That was enough bug-catching for one day.
~ Elmore Leonard
The center of my sins stuck behind a blocked door, circled by hollow deeds spread on my lifetime's floor
~ Munia Khan
and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
~ Alice Hoffman
The sun that brief December dayRose cheerless over hills of gray,And, darkly circled, gave at noonA sadder light than waning moon.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
It was heaven. Pure and simple paradise. Even as he kissed his way along her neck, his palms circled, his fingers kneaded, and she sent up the white flag of surrender.
~ Susan Mallery
The requiem of the twain was the roar of the breaking waves and the scream of the white birds that circled round the Watter's Mou'.
~ Bram Stoker
Marionettes dance afield beneath masterly hands— I stumble among them crossed by the strings in tangled two-step and curse all these fools in their mad pirouette— I shall not live as they do oh, no, leave me in my circled dance— these unbidden twitchings you see I swear on Hood's Grave is artistry in motion S
~ Steven Erikson
We circled around for a long time because they were being very cautious. They didn't want to lose me. That would have been noticed.
~ Gavin Edwards
And in the center of an open cluster of ten thousand stars, whose light tore to shreds the feebly encircling darkness, there circled the huge Imperial planet Trantor.
~ Isaac Asimov
to their terror when they saw the reality of twenty-four tributes circled together, knowing only one could live? Haymitch and Peeta come in, bid me good
~ Suzanne Collins
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
~ Aaron Hill
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do
~ Osip Mandelstam
There is no permanent forgetting. Though the world of things is persuasive and distracting, the stories always come back, circled in neon. They are all the more alive for having been hidden.
~ Dani Shapiro
Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change you life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.
~ Ron Hall
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
~ Leonard Cohen
Mokhtar and his friends would be working a hustle when one of them would look up. Isn't that your pops, Mokhtar? His father circled his childhood as he circled the city—a kind of sixty-foot roaming conscience.
~ Dave Eggers
Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.
~ Denver Moore
The majors are going to be circled in, just like everyone else, but I've got to focus on every single week.
~ Collin Morikawa
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do
~ Osip Mandelstam
Sometimes Trump eschewed the company letterhead and just annotated a copy of the offending piece of journalism and sent it to the author. When Times columnist Gail Collins called Trump a "financially embattled thousandaire," he sent her column back with her face circled. Next to it, Trump had written, "The Face of a Dog!" Sometimes
~ Unknown