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Quotes About Murmur

They shall arrive in a murmur And shall disappear into fog and earth
~ Philippe Claudel
Behold! The brook is murmuring and murmuring, but I know not of what. My heart is yearning and yearning, and I know not of what. I cherish the murmur of the brook. I cherish the pang of my lonely heart." The
~ Abraham Cahan
Allí, donde el aire cambia el color de las cosas; donde se ventila la vida como si fiera un murmullo; como si fuera un puro murmullo de la vida...
~ Juan Rulfo
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.
~ David Almond
When in doubt, mumble.
~ James H. Boren
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
~ James Russell Lowell
Nice shirt," Rafe murmured in a low voice as she passed him. Baffled, she glanced down and then could have died from mortification. It was the Sleep with a Librarian shirt that Hope and Faith had given her one Christmas as a joke. She never wore it, of course—it wasn't her style at all—but she'd thrown it on that morning under her sweater, knowing she was going to be painting the scenery later and it would be perfect for the job.
~ RaeAnne Thayne
Slattern! What a wonderful new word. 'Slattern,' I murmur appreciatively to Patricia. 'Yes, slattern,' Bunty says firmly. 'That's what she is.' 'Not a slut like you then?' Patricia says very quietly. Loud enough to be heard, but too quiet to be believed.
~ Kate Atkinson
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
~ Walter Raleigh
In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.
~ Clinton Scollard
Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
~ Japanese Proverb
She lay for a long time listening to the mysterious sounds given forth by old houses at night, the undefinable creakings, rustlings, and sighings, which would have frightened Virginia had she remained awake, but which sounded to Nan like the long murmur of the past breaking on the shores of a sleeping world.
~ Edith Wharton
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
~ Alexander Smith
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
~ Alfred Austin
Chrissie lowered her voice so that he struggled to
~ Kathryn Hughes
In the porches of mine ears.
~ William Shakespeare
Beautiful," I murmured. "I agree," Adrian said, and I saw his eyes were on me.
~ Richelle Mead
La oscuridad reinaba en torno a mí; todo estaba tranquilo, todo. Pero en las alturas zumbaba el eterno canto de la atmósfera, ese bordoneo lejano, sin modulaciones, que jamás se calla. Presté atención tanto tiempo a ese murmullo sin fin, a ese murmullo morboso, que comenzó a turbarme. Eran, sin duda, las sinfonías de los mundos girando en el espacio por encima de mí, las estrellas que entonaban un himno.
~ Knut Hamsun
And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me ... everything was silent--everything. But up in the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent. I listened so long to this ceaseless faint murmur that it began to bewilder me; it was surely a symphony from the rolling spheres above. Stars that intone a song....
~ Knut Hamsun
I should like my life to leave after it no other murmur than that of the watchman, a song to while away the waiting.
~ Andre Breton
Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound.
~ L.M. Montgomery
We do not lealve the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions, We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
In the box, there was a heart. In his head, there was a voice. It said, Good.
~ Derek Landy
Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature. Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.
~ Donald L. Hicks