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A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find -- Emily Dickinson
Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss. -- Thomas Jefferson
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it. -- Ilka Chase
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. -- D. H. Lawrence
Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard. -- Fritz Kreisler
There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it. -- Joyce Meyer
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. -- John Lubbock
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ. -- Evander Holyfield
21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they'd look through, and then you'd murmur the password or whatever it was you had, showed a little ticket, and if they remembered who you were, you went in. -- Brooke Astor
I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No. -- Jeremy Clarkson
Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur. -- Andre Breton
All the live murmur of a summer's day. -- Matthew Arnold
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away. -- Philip Sidney
I do not murmur, even if my heart break. -- Heinrich Heine
The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. -- Chief Seattle
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies! -- John Keats
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. -- William Shenstone
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Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial. -- T. B. Joshua
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? -- William Cowper
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. -- Jack London
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas -- James Kenneth Stephen
PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; -- Walter Raleigh
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. -- Walter Raleigh
The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill? -- John Dryden
Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. -- Maya Angelou
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur. -- Rumi
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. -- Thomas Brooks
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament. -- Hannah More
Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature.Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God. -- Donald L. Hicks
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. -- Jose Marti
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V -- William Shakespeare
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees. -- Alfred Austin
I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music... -- Frank Loesser
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us. -- Joyce Meyer
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams. -- Gaston Bachelard
I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die? -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all. -- Theocritus
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. -- David Almond
In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way. -- Clinton Scollard
She howl'd aloud, I am on fire within.There comes no murmur of reply.What is it that will take away my sin,And save me lest I die? -- Alfred Tennyson
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour. -- Sigrid Undset
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful. -- Pierre de Ronsard
A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night. -- Stephane Mallarme
Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection. -- William James
Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain. -- Kevin DeYoung
Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful. -- Bonnie D. Parkin
The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped. -- Celia Thaxter
Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be. -- Susan Cooper
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they. -- John Ruskin
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. -- Samuel Johnson
To lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. -- John Lubbock
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ. -- Saint Augustine

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