Harking Quotes

The afternoon is too tempting to be denied. It isn't Paradise here, or even close, but the mimosa is in bloom and the air from the sea is cool and pleasant. On days like this I think of poor old Magnus Stepney's evolving Green God, harking us all up to Eden. The Green God's voice is faint enough that few of us hear it clearly, and that's our tragedy, I suppose, as a species-but I hear it very distinctly just now. It asks me to step into the sunshine, and I mean to do its bidding. (Robert Charles Wilson)
Though the theology of Christianity had thus sunk to the lowly estate of a mere delusion of the rabble, propagated on that level by the ancient caste of sacerdotal parasites, the ethics of Christianity continued to enjoy the utmost acceptance, and perhaps even more acceptance than ever before. It seemed to be generally felt, in fact, that they simply must be saved from the wreck-that the world would vanish into chaos if they went the way of the revelations supporting them. In this fear a great many judicious men joined, and so there arose what was, in essence, an absolutely new Christian cult-a cult, to wit, purged of all the supernaturalism superimposed upon the older cult by generations of theologians, and harking back to what was conceived to be the pure ethical doctrine of Jesus. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Dear reader dearest inscrutable listener inscrutably harking or regrettably more likely not harking except in that chamber in me that posits you with me every moment I'm speaking or trying to speak Dear reader who may or may not be with me I still remember how once you weren't here at all so I'd make up a mythical listener and there were good sides to that because I myself could choose the degree of your presence the level of your attention from zero to fifty but then before I knew it you were somehow actually with me though it's still a mystery as to why you decided to join me. View quote
C.K. Williams
The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. View quote
Ethan Coen
A large proportion of Britain's Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. Which side do they cheer for? It is an interesting test. Are you still harking back to where you came from or where you are? I think we have got real problems in that regard. View quote
Norman Tebbit
When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy. View quote
Alan Hansen