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The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption. -- Julian Jaynes
Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one. -- Bruce Chatwin
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. -- Johannes Brahms
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. -- Blaise Pascal
The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm. -- Confucius
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. -- Aesop
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. -- George Henry Lewes
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. -- Walter de La Mare
Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it. -- David Bowie
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either. -- Bill Vaughan
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? -- Khalil Gibran
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute -- Rumi
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul. -- Anthony of Padua
God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note. -- Rumi
Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling...Willis Reed scored four points. Curt Schilling went seven innings against one of the best offenses of recent memory. No offense to Willis Reed. -- Theo Epstein
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength. -- Alexis Carrel
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. -- Aaron Swartz
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they. -- Joseph Brant
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds. -- William Watson
A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around. -- John Betjeman
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. -- Jonathan Swift
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. -- John Webster
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; -- Edmund Spenser
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. -- Caspar David Friedrich
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. -- Bradley Chicho
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. -- Rumi
The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me. -- Zaha Hadid
Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow... -- Christine Downing
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds. -- Philip James Bailey
Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face ... -- Phoebe Cary
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds. -- Loren Eiseley
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good. -- Ogden Nash

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