#pang

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#always #children #claim #gave #had

I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling. ↗

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

#american #american flag #banner #enjoyed #feeling

Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could attain it. ↗

— J. Matthew Nespoli

#freedom #lies #secrets #sins #star-spangled-banner

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#despair #fury #give #i #indulge

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#better man #butterflies #ever #i #man

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key. ↗

— Carla Bley

#band #banner #bus #elected #france

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#gratitude #into #joy #memory #pangs

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. ↗

— Euripedes

#change #happiness #heart #more #pang

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#alike #chiefly #endures #however #intensity

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#every #fresh #into #only #pangs