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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. -- Norman Douglas
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. -- Helen Garner
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. -- Adam Duritz
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect. -- Brian Eno
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. -- Frederick Tennyson
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. -- Wallace Stevens
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. -- Rowan Williams
A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds. -- Dakotsu Iida
Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. -- Fanny Crosby
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Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past -- W.S. Gilbert
Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today. -- Truth Devour
Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs. -- Marlena De Blasi
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox. -- Charles M. Schulz
It seems that laughter needs an echo. -- Henri Bergson
I will offer a choice, not an echo. -- Barry Goldwater
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
There is no love that is not an echo. -- Theodor Adorno
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. -- Mohsin Hamid
I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric. -- Ron Fournier
People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films. -- Jill Clayburgh
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. -- Giotto di Bondone
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. -- Yannick Noah
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart. -- Eliza Cook
What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. -- Bill Delahunt
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. -- Kool Moe Dee
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. -- Jonathan Swift
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do. -- Naomi Wolf
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. -- Thomas Carlyle
This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice. -- Jim Walsh
Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy. -- Elizabeth Warren
When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind. -- Stevie Wonder
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. -- Ronnie Wood
If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself. -- Neil Turok
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. -- Adelaide Anne Procter
To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it. -- Bobby Vinton
When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening. -- Taylor Swift
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. -- Jacques Derrida
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. -- Margaret Atwood
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. -- Stephen King
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. -- Henry Anatole Grunwald
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. -- Mary Shelley
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. -- Pearl S. Buck
The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors. -- Stella Young
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' -- Tim Cahill
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar. -- Dylan McDermott
Souls live on in perpetual echoes. -- George Eliot
The old echoes are long in dying. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
What we do now echoes in eternity. -- Marcus Aurelius
Dreams are hopes, and echoes of hope. -- Neil Gaiman
And more than echoes talk along the walls. -- Alexander Pope
Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity. -- Russell Crowe
Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices. -- Robin Sharma
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes. -- Swami Satchidananda
Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life. -- Rajneesh
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn. -- Matsuo Basho
Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. -- Edward Young
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. -- George Eliot
There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes. -- Nalini Singh
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire. -- Ernest Hemingway
And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture. -- Robert Henri
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. -- John G. Shedd
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. -- Margaret Atwood
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet. -- Tyga
When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe. -- Rumi
It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history. -- Terry Pratchett
Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind. -- Harry Nilsson
I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint. -- Leland Bell
Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Mishaps in life echoes for eternity. Weeks from now, I will be harvesting my glory. Imagine greater! -- Evelyn Leilou Colon
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. -- Charles Angoff
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart! -- Eliza Cook
That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words. -- Ann Voskamp
Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop. My answer to her: I never will. -- Leymah Gbowee
I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes. -- Carl Sandburg
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth -- L.M. Montgomery
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth -- L.M. Montgomery
We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity. -- Robert Fanney
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. -- John Frederick Boyes
What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future. -- Toba Beta
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head. -- Bob Seger
Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. -- Markus Zusak
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world -- Dar Williams
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. -- C.J. Sansom
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. -- Carol Zaleski
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. -- Carl Sandburg
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. -- Bela Bartok
I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places. -- Jennifer McMahon
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. -- Roger Lewin
WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. -- Morihei Ueshiba
At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice! -- Ray Bradbury
Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album. -- Jimmy Cliff
I am a Cartesian clear and distinct object on this pyramidal peak of the mountain, where the echoes trail off almost forever the horizon. -- Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them. -- Daphne du Maurier
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it? -- Walter Wangerin
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat. -- Brad Leithauser
To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me. -- James Frey
For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.("Out Of The Deep") -- Walter de La Mare
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. -- Joseph Joubert
The poetic image ["¦] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes. -- Gaston Bachelard
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story. -- Stephen King
A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. -- Larry Crabb
Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar. -- Horace Mann
Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free. -- Aaron Tippin
It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood. -- Robert Creeley
The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered and lay still in the silent valley." -- Evelyn Waugh

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