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Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb. -- Horace
I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice. -- Debi Thomas
People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show. -- Tea Leoni
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! -- Bryan Procter
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice. -- Debi Thomas
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. -- John Dryden
I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor. -- Jake Pavelka
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. -- Benjamin F. Wade
Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide. -- Simon Mainwaring
I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they're dirty. Besides, I don't walk - I glide, like butter. Float like a vampire. I'm like Louis Vuitton, but smoother. He wishes he were like me. -- Kid Cudi
As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me. -- Michael Leunig
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. -- Giacomo Casanova
Baby, let's cruise, let's flow, let's glide. -- Smokey Robinson
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway. -- Billy Idol
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass. -- Ovid
Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide. -- Andrew Marvell
The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up. -- Roger Ebert
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again. -- Markus Zusak
There will be no transportation problems in Heaven-you can either glide along, float along or fly! -- David Berg
Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide. -- Harvey Rice
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! -- Walter Scott
People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show -- Tea Leoni
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper. -- James Robertson
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! -- Bryan Procter
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child. -- Van Morrison
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide. -- John Muir
People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground! -- David Berg
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. -- Virginia Woolf
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore. -- George Eliot
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud. -- J. K. Rowling
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make. -- Bonnie Raitt
How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! -- William Blake
The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. -- David Hume
God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night. -- Jose Rizal
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface. -- Hippolyte Taine
We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours. -- Michel de Montaigne
Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea. -- Constance Hale
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide. -- Lewis Carroll
Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they'll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it. -- Mark Gonzales
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals. -- John F. Kennedy
Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches. -- Caroline Paul
Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. -- William Shakespeare
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.' -- Charles Dickens
Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it. -- David Lange
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks. -- Seamus Heaney
Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure. -- Beryl Markham
I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there. -- Winona Ryder
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. -- John Greenleaf Whittier

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