(1958 quotes found)
“We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.”
Harriet Tubman
“I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up."”
Johnny Cash
“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again”
Isaac Watts
“The cry of the ghetto is being heard by a nation with its fingers in its ears”
Barbara Sizemore
“Not everyone has heard my name I want it to be a house hold name.”
Mandy Moore
“And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.”
Bible
“There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that lady sing at the noon, / Two red roses across the moon.”
William Morris
“I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote”
James Fergusson
““She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.””
Kate Chopin
