Cries Quotes

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

The artist in me cries out for design.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

My husband is from Venezuela and he cries when he needs to cry!

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.