Elizabeth Chase Allen famous quotes

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
-- Elizabeth Chase Allen

#Time #Children #Night

I count no more my wasted tears; They left no echo of their fall; I mourn no more my lonesome years; This blessed hour atones for all. I fear not all that Time or Fate May bring to burden heart or brow,- Strong in the love that came so late, Our souls shall keep it always now!
-- Elizabeth Chase Allen

#Famous Love #Strong #Blessed

Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew.
-- Elizabeth Chase Allen

#Sexy #Stars #Struggle

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.
-- Elizabeth Chase Allen

#Giving #Stones #Tardiness

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!
-- Elizabeth Chase Allen

#Years #Giving #Childhood

We do not die with those we mourn.
-- Elizabeth Chase Allen

#Mourn #Dies

The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.