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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. -- Agnes de Mille
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. -- Dick Dale
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -- Voltaire
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. -- Thomas Mann
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle. -- Paul McCartney
The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide. -- John Keats
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels. -- John Donne
Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows; but without that noise. -- Jack Handey
Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave. -- William Shakespeare
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance. -- Goswami Kriyananda
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. -- Theodore Hesburgh
Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. -- Wynton Marsalis
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. -- George Galloway
There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace. -- Gloria Gaither
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. -- Norman Mailer
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. -- Wynton Marsalis
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. -- John Donne
A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come. -- Charles Spurgeon
We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize. -- David Jeremiah
Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat. -- E. Merrill Root
I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality. -- Ronnie James Dio
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard! -- Aldous Huxley
The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for His own people - that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture. As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be alert for the final trumpet that will announce His return, when we shall always be with Him. -- Alan Redpath
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. -- John F. Kennedy
Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal? -- Jaco Pastorius
Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell. -- Voltaire
Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. -- John Milton
Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy. -- William Shakespeare
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; -- Edmund Spenser
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! -- Anthony Burgess
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence("Roundness") -- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
After the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city." Joshua 6:16 -- Beth Moore
Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space. -- Elizabeth Alexander
Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event! -- Roberto Hogue
Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be! -- Rosa Luxemburg
Big's voice trumpets, as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight, even pass the salt comes out of his mouth in a thou-shalt-Ten-Commandments kind of way. -- Jandy Nelson
Tis ten to one this play can never pleaseAll that are here. Some come to take their easeAnd sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,W' have frighted with our trumpets. -- William Shakespeare
Recall the coldOf Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpetsShrilling into the ruck ; some trampledAcres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind'sFlurrying, darkness over the human mire. -- Geoffrey Hill
The green garden, moonlit pool, lemons, lovers, and fish are all dissolved in the opal sky, across which, as the horns are joined by trumpets and supported by clarions there rise white arches firmly planted on marble pillars... -- Virginia Woolf
Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows. -- Luis Alberto Urrea
This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came together in a spectacular clash of sound and fury. -- Sharon Kay Penman
There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression... We have yet to become fluent in the language -and music- of the wild. -- Boyd Norton
...they come to us, these restless dead,Shrouds woven from the words of men,With trumpets sounding overhead(The walls of hope have grown so thinAnd all our vaunted innocenceHas withered in this endless frost)That promise little recompenseFor all we risk, for all we've lost... -- Mira Grant
The cave exploded with the sound of trumpets.A heavenly choir began to sing.A surge of power ran up the sword into Henry's hand.A voice thundered through the cavern"Whosoever Pulleth The Sword From Out The Stone, Is Rightwise Born King of All England."Henry screamed and threw the sword into the lake. -- Ted Mendelssohn
... then with the arrival of noisy helpers the scene became one of riotous carnival. For they carried boxes of coloured balls, bales of scarlet and yellow bunting, baskets laden with glittering tinsel, trumpets painted silver and vermilion, dolls in vivid muslin dresses, stars and medallions, tops and skipping ropes, and tumbled them in festive profusion over baskets and chairs. -- Winifred Holtby
Angels of highest light and love, Angels that radiate beams of pure energy from the heavens above.Please join us and be with us on this very night, As the soul of our beloved joins you in flight.We pray that you send this soul embraced in your lovely wings, During his journey may he hear harps, and trumpets and strings. -- Molly Friedenfeld
I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets. -- John Neff
Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing -- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. -- Etheridge Knight
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do. -- Elie Abel
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. -- Simon Blackburn
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! -- Dante Alighieri
Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically. -- Zach Condon
Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall. -- Ellen J. Barrier
Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman. -- Susan Faludi
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall. -- Geoff Zanelli
Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness? -- Constance Fenimore Woolson
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything. -- Cootie Williams
Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear -- St. Vincent
Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin. -- Max Lucado
Eternity hums with every beating heart, with every up-lifted voice, with the crash of waves, the whirl of wind across the shifting dunes, the cry of sea birds, and the trumpets of heavenly angels. -- Janell Rhiannon
When EudÃ¦monidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets. -- Plutarch

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