#cries

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

— Aime Cesaire

#beneath #cries #foot #out #paint

The artist in me cries out for design. ↗

— Robert Frost

#artist #cries #me #out

'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. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

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. ↗

— Og Mandino

#apply #become #cries #efforts #grain

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

— John Masefield

#cries #full #warm #west #wind

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

— Marge Piercy

#cries #person #pitcher #real #water

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

— Charley Pride

#cries #cry #everybody #father #grew

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

— Jean Philippe Rameau

#common #cries #emotive #emphasis #first

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. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#beautiful #beautiful music #conceals #cries #formed

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. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#cries #eyes #goddam #heart #mean