Bells Quotes & Sayings
These bells quotes and bells sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls. A noise of falling weights that never fell, Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand, Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door, And bolted doors that open'd of themselves; And one betwixt the dark and light had seen Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
I heard the bells on Christmas Day; Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! (Christmas Bells) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. - Paul Thomas Mann
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fibre thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. - John Muir
Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! - Edgar Allan Poe
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. - Earl Warren
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow