Peaceful Quotes

In the beginning there are those who don't quite fit in But are somehow okay. And then some morning There are places that suddenly seem wonderful: Weather and water seem wonderful, And the peaceful night sky that arrives In time to protect us, like a sword Cutting the blue cloak of a prince.
John Ashbery



Far beneath the tainted foam That frets above our peaceful home, We dream in joy and wake in love Nor know the rage that yells above.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard



The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
Bryant McGill



If Turkey came up with a peaceful initiative and the PKK rejects that, then all the Kurdistanis will take up a position against the PKK.
Massoud Barzani



It must have been a peaceful world, for early settlements at large exhibited no fortifications regarding human attacks. For maybe one or two millennia [after the end of the last glacial epoch], humans obviously lived an untroubled life under these social conditions.
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg



You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
Norman Ernest Borlaug



I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir



I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.
George Walker Bush



The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
George Walker Bush



Had my lineage and rank been accompanied by only moderate success, I should have come to this city as friend rather than prisoner, and you would not have disdained to ally yourself peacefully with one so nobly born, the ruler of so many nations.
Caratācos



Since I have possessed a "Wonderland Stamp Case", Life has been bright and peaceful, and I have used no other. I believe the Queen's laundress uses no other.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson



It's hard to think that in cities there's men who are goin' to mad, Each strivin' to beat his fellows and get what the others had; And from this here peaceful viewpoint, such doin's look bad, plum bad.
Arthur Chapman



They put the cold dirt over him and left me on my own And when at last I looked up I saw I was not alone So I said If you're a relative, he had a peaceful end. She said My name is Corey you can say I'm just a friend.
Harry Forster Chapin



Ay, soon upon the stage of life, Sweet, happy children, you will rise, To mingle in its care and strife, Or early find the peaceful skies. Then be it yours, while you pursue The golden moments, quick to haste Some noble work of love to do, Nor suffer one bright hour to waste.
Daniel Clement Colesworthy



What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
William Cowper