Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
Quotes about retreating (16 Quotes)
One time or another we all face adversitys chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.
I don't think there's any question among the scientific community that rebuilding our barrier islands is a smart thing to do, because our whole coastline is retreating.
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.
We are seeing signs of significant change in the Arctic with mountain glaciers retreating, snow cover disappearing, the Greenland ice sheet thinning and Arctic sea ice cover declining. There is no time to lose - we need to take drastic action now to combat climate change.
We were not using our machine guns except when we were under attack because we were short on ammunition, ... We had not been resupplied we had been moving, retreating, falling back for about a week. So that guy is dreaming.
Oil was down a lot on the day and that certainly helped the market to support recent gains. There's also money moving from bonds to stocks here, with bonds retreating after the August run.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.
And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
The mass loss resulting from this glacier acceleration in Greenland is very significant. These are very active glaciers. They all end up in the ocean, discharge icebergs and are very dynamic. One you push them a little bit out of equilibrium, they start retreating very fast.
It is a phenomenon that frightens the native people that live around the Arctic. Many fear their children will never know the polar bear. The ice is moving further and further north, ... In the Bering Sea the ice leaves earlier and earlier. On the north slope, the ice is retreating as far as 300 or 400 miles offshore.
What the market has found is that the 68-level has a rather strong resistance, and so the contract is now retreating slightly on profit taking.
Surely you do not make the dead to hear, and you do not make the deaf to hear the call when they go back retreating.