"How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song."

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Source : Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856). “The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame”, p.216

James Grahame

#Song Quotes #Morning Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.”
“I lost my head/when I found my heart.”
“I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.”
“Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.”
“If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.”
“Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.”
“Enough is as good as a feast.”
“History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.”

Source : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.33, Vintage

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