John B. Tabb quotes

“And pray, who are you?" Said the Violet blue To the Bee, with surprise, At his wonderful size, In her eyeglass of dew. "I, madam," quoth he, "Am a publican Bee, Collecting the tax Of honey and wax. Have you nothing for me?”
-- John B. Tabb

#Summer Quotes #Eyeglasses Quotes #July Quotes

“In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.”
-- John B. Tabb

#Stars Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”
-- John B. Tabb

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

#Winter Quotes #Wind Quotes #Snow Quotes

“Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.”
-- John B. Tabb

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

#Boys Quotes #Joy Quotes #Babe Quotes

“Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.”
-- John B. Tabb

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.”
-- John B. Tabb

#Fountain Quotes #Hush Quotes #Hermits Quotes

“Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,-A life-complete in death-complete to die.”
-- John B. Tabb

Source : "The Bubble". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

#Loss Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Gains Quotes

“A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.”
-- John B. Tabb

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

#Flower Quotes #Rainbow Quotes #Lightning Quotes

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

“I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.”

“Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.”

“Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.”

“At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.”

Source : Allen Johnson, Edward Samuel Corwin (1926). “The age of Jefferson and Marshall: Part 1: Jefferson and his colleagues, by Allen Johnson. Part 2: John Marshall and the Constitution, by Edward S. Crowin”

“I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.”

“In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.”

“I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.”