Caves Quotes · Page 4

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

— N.D. Wilson

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.

— Tarthang Tulku

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

— Henry Van Dyke

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some…

— Edwidge Danticat

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the…

— Ayn Rand

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

— Neon Hitch

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I…

— Richard Gere

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody…

— Lucille Clifton

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the…

— Charles Lyell

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would…

— Eugene V. Debs

Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful,…

— Laini Taylor

“here are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter…

— Lia Riley

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our…

— Christopher McDougall

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of…

— Margaret Fuller

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if…

— Libba Bray

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually…

— Steve Martin

I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay…

— Murray Gell-Mann

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons,…

— Anonymous

Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find…

— Anonymous

Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers…

— Jane Porter

2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the…

— Charles Bukowski

Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change,

— Robert Downey, Jr

As a kid, since I was born in Kashmir, I have been to the Amarnath caves.

— Mohit Raina

Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

— Thomas Gray

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

— Ernest Hello

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

— Ram Dass

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

— Isaac D'Israeli

Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of…

— David Letterman

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

— Plato

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.

— Joe Teti

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

— John Milton

You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.

— Kenneth Oppel

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

— John Milton

People have been sharing pictures of their food for as long as there's been caves.

— Derek Waters

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

— Samuel Beckett

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.”

— Cuthbert Soup