Caves Quotes · Page 10

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what…

— Al Sharpton

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm…

— Haile Gerima

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

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to…

— Barack Obama

Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

— Dodie Smith

I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Samuel Beckett

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and…

— Anonymous

I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We…

— Daniel O'Sullivan

My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I…

— Hilma Wolitzer

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the…

— Tom Angleberger

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from…

— Gregory David Roberts

My brother gave me some good advice. He said, "What do you want to do? Do that because there are no rules…

— Taylor Swift

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was…

— James Buchan

Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the…

— Robert Ruark

There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge…

— John Ortberg

I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that…

— Mariette Hartley

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

— Reginald Fessenden

Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no…

— Carl Jung

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all…

— John Muir