Robert Montgomery famous quotes

The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Air #Names #Theatre

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Home #Earth #Spots

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Challenges #Religion #Slumber

A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
-- Robert Montgomery

#Imagination #Soul #Crowds

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Ocean #Air #Earth

The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Soul #Levels #Pants

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Death #Sleep #Night

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it
-- Robert Montgomery

#Clever #Believe #Advice

The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know where the hurt comes from, and in all pictures now the famous people have already begun to look lost and lonely.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Lonely #Hurt #People

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Believe #Mean #Lucky

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
-- Robert Montgomery

#Waiting #Listening #Turns

Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!
-- Robert Montgomery

#Heart #Years #Wings

A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around him thrown? With what a gloom the ush’ring scene appears! The leaves all shiv’ring with instinctive fears, The waters curling with a fellow dread, A veiling fervour round creation spread, And, last, the heavy rain’s reluctant shower, With big drops patt’ring on the tree and bower, While wizard shapes the bowing sky deform,— All mark the coming of the thunder-storm!
-- Robert Montgomery

#Rain #Omnipotence #Sky

Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!
-- Robert Montgomery

#Fall #Echoes #Rocks

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Ocean #Iron #Feet

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery
-- Robert Montgomery

#Rejection #Able #Kidneys

And there is London!--England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles Her greatness; gloriously she rules, At once the awe and sceptre of the world.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Heart #Greatness #Land

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Uplifting #Ocean #Iron

O for a summer noon, when light and breeze Sport on the grass, like ripples o’er a lake Alive with freshness! when the full round Sun, With the Creator’s smile upon his face, Walks like a prince of glory through the path Of Heaven!—Thou vast, and ever-glorious sky, Mantling the earth with thy majestic robe...
-- Robert Montgomery

#Summer #Sports #Light

How oft,—be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there;...
-- Robert Montgomery

#Sky #Wings #Rainbow

...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm!— Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!
-- Robert Montgomery

#Nature #Ocean #Sky

Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone stream, upon whose chequerÂ’d face We mused, when noon-rays made the pebbles gleam, Is mirrorÂ’d to the mind: though all around Be rattling hoofs and roaring wheels, the eye Is wandÂ’ring where the heart delights to dwell.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Summer #Nature #Heart

...How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around!—Survey The sun-warm heaven...
-- Robert Montgomery

#Nature #Air #Eagles

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares...
-- Robert Montgomery

#Heaven #Age #World

Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds?—
-- Robert Montgomery

#Dream #Self #Heaven

Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away;...
-- Robert Montgomery

#Sweet #Prayer #Heart

Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness o’er thy wither’d heart.
-- Robert Montgomery

#Nature #Wall #Spring

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity,...
-- Robert Montgomery

#Death #Anchors #Sea

Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all are doom'd one common race To run, and one eternal goal to reach, May Thy prime attribute each bosom warm With tender sympathy and truth; may man Be link'd to man in fellowship of soul, Till one vast chain of Love embrace the world!
-- Robert Montgomery

#Running #Heart #Men

A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!
-- Robert Montgomery

#Heart #Clothes #Brotherhood