Quotes about Ear
Incline thine ear, O Lady, to hear my prayers: and turn not away from me the beauty of thy face. Turn our mourning into rejoicing: and our tribulation into joy.
- St Bonaventure
This is "poetry," this song of the wind across teeth, this message from the flayed tongue to the flayed ear.
- Margaret Atwood
Such strains as would have won the ear of Pluto, to have quite set free his half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.
- John Milton
The angel ended, and in Adam's ear so charming left his voice that he awhile thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
- John Milton
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
- John Milton
I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.
- Mark Twain
Like apples of gold in a silver setting is a word that is aptly spoken. It is a golden ring, an ornament of finest gold, such is a wise apology to an attentive ear." —Proverbs 25:11—12
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Oh! dreadful is the check—intense the agony— When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.
- Emily Bronte
There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, Put back thy sword, Peter. But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.
- Joseph Campbell
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book;… in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
- AB Simpson
And in their motions harmony divine so smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear listens delighted.
- John Milton