Quotes About Distant

And as the sun set behind far distant knolls, They sat roasting marshmallows over the coals. As the embers went out, they felt tired and dozy, So they

Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above.

The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever: Someday you and I will be the only two left.

Angels are never too distant to hear you.

All this I knew, and yet it was a different thing, to learn it from Delaunay: not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. When I understood this, Delaunay said, I might begin to understand.

I remember the winter sun was shining and I felt cold and distant as the sun.

he glimpsed, briefly, the distant bridge which glowed like something written in the sky.

When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.

Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.

Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

listening to the distant and imagined echo of waves as they broke along the shore on a stormy night in Rodanthe.

It never hurts to flirt. And you've made a career of it. That's just to balance your ice princess routine. 'Oh hello, Chad. Sarah put a distant look in her eye and gracefully lifted a hand. Keeley's comment was short and rude and made Sarah giggle. Dignity isn't a flaw, Keeley insisted, even as her own lips twitched. You could use a little. You've got plenty for both of us.

But its more illuminating feature is something that often happens with popular history: An attempt at analyzing the distant past ends up being more astute about the living present.

The pyramid was built of bottles, hundreds of bottles that flashed and glinted as if with living fire, picking up and breaking up the misty light that filtered from the distant sun and still more distant stars.

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

Never rude, always aloof.

I felt curiously aloof from my own self.

Its sweet bird's nest is full of pain in a distant place

La guerra, que resuena a lo lejos, me dice que hay una noche más oscura detrás de esta noche del patio.

1981 glistening in his eyes like a beautiful far-off star.

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.