Motto Miracle Night

Famous quotes containing the words motto, miracle and/or night:

    “Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to
    me whispering to congratulate me,
    For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
    In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined
    toward me,
    And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I
    was happy.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)