Roar Quotes

Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages. (John Steinbeck)
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. View quote
Matthew Henry
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. View quote
Winston Churchill
The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. View quote
Karl Menninger
I am woman, hear me roar. View quote
Helen Reddy
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
The silence was an intense roar. View quote
Jack Kerouac
So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. View quote
Lord Byron
One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent. View quote
Julie Garwood
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. (Alain de Botton)
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom. View quote
Rajneesh
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. View quote
Anne Rice
The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar? View quote
Friedrich Schiller
You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky. View quote
Laura Nyro
We are the boys That fear no noise Where the thundering cannons roar. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. View quote
Matthew Arnold
But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China. View quote
Abby Sunderland
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam. View quote
Daniel Pipes
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. (John Steinbeck)
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. View quote
John Milton
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved. View quote
Scott Cunningham
I am a woman, hear me roar," I said. Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped. View quote
Charlaine Harris
And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self. View quote
Jeff Lindsay