Quotes About Broken

And searched the wood for Jenny, too, as soon as dawn had broken blue

Peking followed Lenin's dictum that 'promises, like piecrusts, are meant to be broken'.

Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

I had hip surgery in America because I'd had problems during my last two years in Europe. They said out there that my hip was broken and I didn't know about it.

the same broken promise of a life of ease. I

I wanted to trace the lost patterns that came before the world was broken and find the new ones we could make out of the shards.

The sooner Harkness stopped walking, the sooner he could stop walking. That was the simple truth. That was logic. But something went deeper, a truer, more frightening logic. Harkness was a part of the group that Garraty was a part of, a segment of his subclan. Part of a magic circle that Garraty belonged to. And if one part of that circle could be broken, any part of it could be broken.

It's an old song that's been played on all the jukeboxes in America. The song has been around so long that it's been recorded on the very dust of America and it has settled on everything and changed chairs and cars and toys and lamps and windows into billions of phonographs to play that song back into the ear of our broken heart.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...

What would I put in my bottom drawer? – I would put only sharp objects, the clean lines of broken glass, the honed steel of paring knives, the tiny saw-teeth of bread knives and the soothing edges of razor blades, I weigh knives in my hands like strange comforters.

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.

I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

Edward M. Wolfe, Hell on Ice

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.