Ravens Quotes - Page 4

• I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Texas, Land

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that the more you read it, if I read the book again today, I'd find 100 other things that I missed last time. It's a constantly changing book.

  Johnny Depp

  Book, Writing, Character

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• The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along the elder brother weeps. For too long I have not been able to work in harmony with these changes. So, given that I did not play my part in harmony with others, how could I expect to change people?

  Zhuangzi

  Brother, Play, Eggs

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• I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

  Hilarie Burton

  Couple, Flower, Cat

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hilarie Burton". Interview with Laura Lane, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams.

  Zendaya

  Dream, Here I Am, Childhood

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan. I have them tattooed on me.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Fans, Baltimore, Tattooed

  "Carmelo Anthony talks Michael Jordan, Collecting Sneakers and More". Interview with Brock Cardiner, www.highsnobiety.com. February 2, 2015.

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Technology, Eagles, Shining

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.

  Lily Cole

  Pale Skin, Black, Skins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Ocean, Dark, Anxious Thoughts

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.289

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• Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Years, Clothes, Mourning

  Penelope Gilliatt (1980). “Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections”, Coward McCann

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• Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
  Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
  Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul
  Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

  Richard Eberhart

  War, Stupid, Fighting

  1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.

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• We’ll always be grateful for the love we’ve received from all of our fans and supporters, and for winning a Super Bowl. I’ll always be proud to say I played for the Baltimore Ravens.

  Ray Rice

  Love, Grateful, Winning

  "At crossroads in quest to continue NFL career, Ray Rice asks forgiveness" by Aaron Wilson, www.baltimoresun.com. February 13, 2015.

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• Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

  Cassandra Clare

  Enough, Professors, Knows

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with details.

  Moira J. Moore

  Country, Boys, Cities

  Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.28, Penguin

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• Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.

  Garth Nix

  Blow, Hitting, Authority

  Garth Nix (2011). “Lord Sunday”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• Her, cheer up. Zoey's grandma didn't say the Raven Mockers actually ate people. She said they just picked them up with their humongous beaks and threw them against a wall or whatever over and over again until every bone in their body was broken." - Aphrodite LaFonte

  P. C. Cast

  Cheer, Wall, Grandma

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

  P. C. Cast

  Bats, Care, Pigeons

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.61, Macmillan

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• I have had just about enough of other guys trying to turn you, Raven. There is only one vampire who will," he said confidently. "The one who you were always meant for-me.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Guy, Vampire, Trying

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• I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.

  Neil Gaiman

  Horse, Memories, Father

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Jealous, Beer, Keys

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• You need to look hot now that you've got three guys giving you the eye."" Three?" "Sweet blue-eyed blond trapper... Muscled blond trapper number two, who buys you cards... And that gorgeous, 'Where have you been all my life' dude with the raven-black hair and dark eyes.

  Jana Oliver

  Sweet, Eye, Dark

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• I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sorry, Lows, Repeats

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• Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

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• The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.

  Kerstin Gier

  Light, Dying, Lions

  Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.467, Macmillan

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• Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fighting, Two, Support

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