Blacken Quotes

You hear and read of the destruction, see pictures... very devastating ... to come and see row after row of blackened, destroyed homes. - Mary Robinson

Those who turn their faces away from the True Guru shall have their faces blackened. Night and day, they suffer in pain; they see the noose of Death always hovering above them. Even in their dreams, they find no peace; they are consumed by the fires of intense anxiety. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The whole world is a store-house of lamp-black; the body and mind are blackened with it. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The siding of the cabin was metal and . . . they would light the stick on fire and use the blackened portion of it to write their names with. And, as they were doing that, burning embers would fall onto the grassy area. That's how we feel the fire started. - Jim Shires

Rather than simply sit back and let these people blacken his reputation, we decided to sue. - Bert Fields

Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible. - Joseph Addison

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. - Adlai E. Stevenson

OK, take a quarter, blacken the edge, and then say to someone, 'I bet you can't roll this quarter without it leaving your face' and when they're done, they have a big pencil line right down the center of their face. - Rachel Green

Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take! - Edward Fitzgerald