Hears Quotes

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

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.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

A person hears only what they understand.

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

Your body hears everything your mind says.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

God hears a mother's prayer.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears by voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.