Dove Quotes - Page 5

• This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out
  Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon
  To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Moon, World, Dirt

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.119, Vintage

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• In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

  Tommy Douglas

  Ottawa, Hawks, Parrots

  Tommy Douglas' remarks on Canadians policy on the Vietnam War during a debate at the House of Commons, February 13, 1967.

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• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  Immanuel Kant

  Light, Air, Space

  Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

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• I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Police

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• Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

  Robert Duvall

  Horse, Mean, Night

  "Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek Interview GET LOW". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Wall, Humble, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

  Sidney Lanier

  Long, Waste, Modern

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.

  Theodore Roethke

  Dream, Rain, Flower

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.114, Anchor

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• Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

  John Milton

  God, Heart, Dark

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.9, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bird, Caves, Innocence

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

  Edith Piaf

  Fly Away, Should, Curtains

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• There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen. "No," said Marged, not so certain. "Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes." "Dove's eyes are small." Marged said. "Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Work, Eye

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and a child. Dove, too, is a toy or possibly a dog as I lead her through the throngs of people.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dog, Children, Night

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• I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

  Elizabeth Smart

  Running, Sex, Heart

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• A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

  Richard Dawkins

  Play, Behaviour, Opponents

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.96, Oxford University Press

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• Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Glasses, Names

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• There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Hawks

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• And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Father, Sheep

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• Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

  Brooke Burns

  Thinking, Black, Swimmer

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• Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon-everything belonged to the men who had the guns. . . . So you protected yourself and loved small. . . . A woman, a child, a brother-a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. . . . To get to a place where you could love anything you chose-not to need permission for desire-well now, that was freedom

  Toni Morrison

  Brother, Children, Gun

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• She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Sad, Spring

  'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' (1800)

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• Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Eye, Night, Wings

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1897). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

  Lin Yutang

  Christian, Wise, Teaching

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• You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Sweet, Love You, Home

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Invitation To Love”

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