Crawling Quotes - Page 2

• The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

  Tori Amos

  Trying, Knees, Bleeding

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• Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

  James Alan Gardner

  Glasses, Toxic, Half

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• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  Victor Cruz

  School, College, Climbing

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• People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leadership, Drinking, Discovery

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• You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

  Rumi

  Trust, Dream, Encouragement

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• I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.

  William P. Young

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and
  heaven?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Humanity, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920

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• I have always thought limousines make me dreadfully uncomfortable, just the way that suits do. When I wear a suit, I feel like ants and termites are crawling all over my body. It's really, really uncomfortable. People put themselves in a kind of prison. It's like the world of the embassies.

  Mark Helprin

  People, World, Body

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a thing. You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody;d hear you, and you couldn't expect anybody to find you, and you'd have centipedes and spiders crawling all over you, and the bones of the ones who died before are scattered all around you, and it's dark and soggy, and way overhead there's this tiny, tiny circle of light like a winter moon. You die there in this place, little by little, all by yourself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dark, Winter, Moon

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.9, Vintage

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• No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reality, Vegas, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

  Inga Muscio

  Heart, Animal, Hair

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• Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

  Greg Bear

  Fusion, Sometimes, Hell

  Greg Bear (2014). “Eon”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.

  Kristin Cashore

  Shame, Walks

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am this fiery snail crawling home.

  Charles Bukowski

  Home, Snail, Fiery

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• The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person.  I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail?  Who cares if you fail?  It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down.  If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.

  John Rzeznik

  Baby, Fall, Mean

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• It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Law, Interesting

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.489, Harvard University Press

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• Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dream, Justice, Soul

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

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• I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  "Obama: 'I have been an imperfect father'" by Barack Obama, www.today.com. May 27, 2010.

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• The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.

  Rafael Eitan

  Israel, Land, Roaches

  New York Times, April 14, 1983.

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• I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Training, Lasts

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• There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Baby, Fall, Past

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• Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!

  Gabriele d'Annunzio

  Men, Space, Air

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• The indignity of it!-
  With everything blooming above me,
  Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses,
  Whole fields lovely and inviolate,-
  Me down in the fetor of weeds,
  Crawling on all fours,
  Alive, in a slippery grave.

  Theodore Roethke

  Weed, Rose, Lovely

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.71, Anchor

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• crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart LISTENING to the thump...thump somewhere beneath muscle and breastbone I remember his arms their sublime ENCIRCLING and the shawdow of his voice "I love you, little girl. Put away your bad dreams. Daddy's here" I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that came HOME from work everyday and instead of picking me up, chased me far far away

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Dream, Dad

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