Quotes About Blight

And faith will take her holy flight, To realms beyond the tomb; They will not madly mourn the blight, Who knows how frail the bloom.

The focus is on tearing out dysfunction and blight, instead of finding existing strengths and building on what people value and what is working well.

Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing — "because the joy of every new marriage a man contracted was so apt to be blighted by the inopportune funeral of a less recent bride.

Tommy showed me one with the actual headline "Blight On the Nation." Another one said "smudge on the map," that he'd highlighted with yellow marker.

The urban planner Donald Sean has argued that an 'urban blight' metaphor led planners to treat crowded neighbourhoods as if they were diseased plants, which had to be extirpated to prevent the spread of rot. The result was the disastrous urban renewal projects the 1960s.

The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

What kind of misinformation were you combating? Where do you want me to begin? Medical? Scientific? Military? Spiritual? Psychological? The psychological aspect I found the most maddening. People wanted so badly to anthropomorphize the walking blight.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

If you chance to live in a town where the authorities cannot rest until they have destroyed every precious tree within their blighting reach, you will be especially charmed by the beauty of the streets of Portsmouth.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Southwest Detroit has been through hell (excuse my directness) with Matty Moroun, his Bridge Company, and all his fancy-named subsidiaries. From blighted homes that my boys have to walk by to allowing his trucks to rumble down our residential streets, passing our parks, schools, and homes - we have had it.

Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. "The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight," nationalist leader John Mitchel thundered, "but the English created the famine." Examples

Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight. In colonial times, as many as one out of every four trees in between southeastern Canada and Georgia was a chestnut—partly the result, it would seem, of Indian burning and planting.

Giants Big things. Things that buffet, bluster .....and defy domination. Dark things. Ominous shades that blight, blacken ....and blot out the Sun

How could human civilization decline so far, yet seem so normal in many respects? And is it scientifically possible that a blight could wipe out all edible

It is the dull urban blight beyond them that is most likely to be bulldozed away in the next century, to be replaced by greenbelts, botanical parks,

It is the blight man was born for,It is Margaret you mourn for.

It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

Miss Quote is so inaccurate She never gets it right; Miss Attribute does so too Forever wrongly cite, Spreading literary blight!

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

No special form of city blight is nearly so devastating as the Great Blight of Dullness.