Sayings about Echoes
I came to the place of my birth and cried, “The friends of my youth, where are they?” And echo answered, “Where are they?” ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles. ~ Chinese Proverb
The echo knows all languages. ~ Finnish Proverbs
A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow building echoes all sounds. ~ Chinese Proverb
The voice of the poor has no echo. ~ Indian Proverbs
Quotations about Echoes
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. ~ Norman Douglas
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The old echoes are long in dying. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. ~ T. S. Eliot
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. ~ John Frederick Boyes
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. ~ Mohsin Hamid
Sublimity is the echo of great mind. ~ Longinus
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ~ Eric Hoffer
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart. ~ Eliza Cook
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. ~ Victor Hugo
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. ~ Otto Von Bismarck
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~ Carl Sandburg
And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away. ~ Tariq Ali
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ~ Don Marquis
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. ~ John A. Shedd
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. ~ Giotto di Bondone
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. ~ Maurice Blanchot
There is no love that is not an echo. ~ Theodor Adorno
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ~ Gene Wolfe
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future. ~ Dhyani Ywahoo
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. ~ Thomas Fuller
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini