Echoes Quotes

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop. My answer to her: I never will.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.

Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

We are the echo of the future.

And more than echoes talk along the walls.

Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

Translation is at best an echo.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

My thoughts will echo your name until I see you again.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.'

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.