Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.
Paul Engle
Related ...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of chu... JOHN GEDDES Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of chu... RUSSELL BRAND Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells
When on the undulating air they swim! THOMAS HOOD Hear the sledges with the bells,
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretell... EDGAR ALLAN POE If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they d... JIM LEHRER Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh... CHRISTOPHER MOORE The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids ... DAN GRABLE Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. GEORGE HERBERT He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells. ANTON CHEKHOV I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of p... ELIZABETH BERG [Oddly, for a group so enamored of patterns, local change-ringers fail to see Houston's ascension as... DAVID GRAVES For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of you... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells. FLORENCE KING Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells,
One, two, three, four, five, six;
They sound so woundy g... DEAN HENRY ALDRIDGE (ALDRICH) "What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells,
'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. GEORGE CRABBE What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. GEORGE CRABBE Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells! THOMAS MOORE The tower, the booklet and the names are listed. We know where the bells came from, and I think that... DALE NIEWOEHNER They like the bells and whistles. LOUISE STARK The 'Hey Monday' songs were always glammed up to be this big production, and I definitely wa... CASSADEE POPE It cometh into court and pleads the cause
Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;
And this ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Bell, thou soundest merrily,
When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou so... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW These bells have been anointed,
And baptized with holy water! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I call the Living--I mourn the Dead--
I break the Lightning. UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR While the steeples are loud in their joy,
To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding,
Let us chime ... THOMAS HOOD Your voices break and falter in the darkness,--
Break, falter, and are still. BRET HARTE (FRANCIS BRET HARTE) The church-going bell. WILLIAM COWPER And this be the vocation fit,
For which the founder fashioned it;
High, high above earth's lif... JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves
it it is dumb.
[Lat., Nunquam ae... PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) That all-softening, overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) And the Sabbath bell,
That over wood and wild and mountain dell
Wanders so far, chasing all th... SAMUEL ROGERS He heard the convent bell,
Suddenly in the silence ringing
For the service of noonday. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and
Clashing, clanging to the pavement
Hurl them from their ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The old mayor climbed the belfry tower,
The ringers ran by two, by three;
"Pull, if ye never p... JEAN INGELOW The vesper bell from far
That seems to mourn for the expiring day. DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") How soft the music of those village bells,
Falling at interval upon the ear
In cadence sweet; ... WILLIAM COWPER Softly the loud peal dies,
In passing winds it drowns,
But breathes, like perfect joys,
... FREDERICK TENNYSON Around, around,
Companions all, take your ground,
And name the bell with joy profound!
C... JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From t... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells... EDGAR ALLAN POE Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Hark, how chimes the passing bell!
There's no music to a knell;
All the other sounds we hear,
... JAMES SHIRLEY With deep affection
And recollection
I often think of
Those Shandon bells,
Whose... FATHER PROUT (PSEUDONYM OF FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY) How like the leper, with his own sad cry
Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!
That lonely bel... CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Ring out, will bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousan... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness o... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself,
And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear
That th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That sucked the honey of his music vows,
Now see th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Curfew must not ring to-night. ROSE HARTWICK THORPE On Christmas morning, my Mam and Dad were downstairs shouting to me to look out the window. T... STEPHEN RICHARDS Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things w... BUDDY GUY I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully. No... SVEN HEDIN Jingle Bells. DIANA KRALL There were no gates, no lights, no bells, no stop signs to warn of an oncoming train, ... One month ... RYAN MOORE Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. CHARLES LAMB Every time Microsoft nails additional, insubstantial bells and whistles on a new version of Office, ... CHARLES KING When I first saw a rough cut of it, I knew it was going to have some kind of bells and whistles. DAVID STRATHAIRN The alarm bells should be ringing in the palace. It could be the beginning of a more radical shift. KUNDA DIXIT There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland. SHARLEEN SPITERI For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first ph... ROLAND BARTHES If a landlord is insisting on getting cash, that should be ringing alarm bells for people. BOB JORDAN Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour. HOWARD JACOBSON Hell's bells, irony blows. JIM BUTCHER Hell's Bells-Harry Dresden JIM BUTCHER When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. JODI PICOULT The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternit... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells fr... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It's really music. It's not just ringing bells. JAMES MILLER The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal pr... KAMALA HARRIS I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words rep... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Bells are getting more scarce, and rather than seeing them in other parts of the United States, or i... DALE NIEWOEHNER Signals, Drums, Guns, Bells, & the sound of Voices weighing up & clearing Anchors ... Monday April 9... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE [Her uncle, William Kelly, sat in a driving rain outside Grace Church, waiting to hear the bells pea... WILLIAM KELLY Christmas is the happiness that lights our children's eyes.
Christmas is a song of bells ringing thr... SHERRILL THOMPSON No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. SHIRLEY BASSEY There's some bells you can't unring. KEN CUCCINELLI I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
T... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repe... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hell’s bells. I don’t call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks. JIM BUTCHER No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. SHIRLEY BASSEY I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells woul... ANNE LAMOTT I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent averag... MICHEL FABER Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late. GEORGE HERBERT If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden. MYANNA BURING Various events in the market set off a lot of bells and whistles. We realized we needed to start con... JEFF KRAMER The alarm bells must have gone off, ANDREW MOORE From one bell all the bells toll. DEJAN STOJANOVIC We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more l... PAUL MCCARTNEY Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said P... RICK RIORDAN We'll have all the bells and whistles. This is a place where when a recruit walks in the door he'll ... LARRY MAYS I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!' DOLLY PARTON Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells. JIM BUTCHER I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! ... ALAN LERNER I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! ... ALAN JAY LERNER There will be bugs with the Baby Bells up front. I expect them to work out the bugs eventually. JEFFREY KAGAN We put bells on them, we're putting up another fence and doing more for security. KARI AUSTIN I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also lov... KELSEA BALLERINI I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,'... RICHARD DAWKINS
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PAUL HOLLYWOOD As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi... PAUL MANAFORT What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. PAUL SAMUELSON No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ... CHRIS PAUL The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and... JEAN PAUL If my son is happy, then I am happy. CHRIS PAUL A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. PAUL VALERY Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending... RAND PAUL I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie... RAND PAUL Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? RAND PAUL People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist... RAND PAUL I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i... RAND PAUL Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don... RAND PAUL You can't solve a dignity problem with military force. RAND PAUL As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances. RAND PAUL Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ... RAND PAUL How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con... RAND PAUL We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric... RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b... RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American... RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer... RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. RAND PAUL I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism... RAND PAUL Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived... PAUL HOLLYWOOD How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui... RON PAUL There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t... RON PAUL You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a... RON PAUL The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl... RON PAUL Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. RON PAUL All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ... RON PAUL When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho... RON PAUL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. RON PAUL You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws. RON PAUL Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do... RON PAUL What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ... RON PAUL Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t... RON PAUL 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS. RON PAUL If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s... RON PAUL When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. RON PAUL The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib... RON PAUL There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator... RON PAUL