Church Bells – Quotes

True love comes quietly,

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. Erich Segal

The church-bells of innumerable

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Not a word was

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken. Don McLean

Like a church bell,

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide. Daniel Handler

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo’s advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such … Read more

I’m worried that a

I’m worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it’s the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for … Read more

Some wish to live

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. Charles Studd

And all the world

And all the world is football-shaped It’s just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I’ve got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I’ve got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference ‘tween … Read more

Full knee-deep lies the

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year you must not die; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year you shall … Read more

One cannot walk down

One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of … Read more