Top 137 Murmur Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.
I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.
When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.
The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.
Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy. I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.
straightway like a bell
Came low and clear
The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
'21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they'd look through, and then you'd murmur the password or whatever it was you had, showed a little ticket, and if they remembered who you were, you went in.
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?
All the live murmur of a summer's day.
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not".
Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us.
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.
Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.
In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.
A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find
The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.
Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.
No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.
"Miss you," he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.
I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.
I do not murmur, even if my heart break.
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.
I am on fire within.
There comes no murmur of reply.
What is it that will take away my sin,
And save me lest I die?
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
