Kings Quotes · Page 44

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you…

— Dawn Richard

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

— Jack LaLanne

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

— Duke Ellington

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men…

— Lin Yutang

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

— Coretta Scott King

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

— Carol Leifer

Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher,…

— John Lewis

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured…

— Oscar Wilde

He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings…

— Laozi

I am the King of Frost Giants. And if you've seen any of the Frost Giants, you know that I am, of…

— Colm Feore

Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be…

— Megan Whalen Turner

That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor…

— Paul Samuelson

I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the…

— Debbie Reynolds

I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song."…

— Mariah Carey

See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls…

— Anonymous

According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of…

— Michael Stearns

Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and…

— Michael Arnzen

In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has…

— Heinrich Harrer

The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the…

— Riane Eisler

My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo]…

— Conor McGregor

Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the…

— Matt Redman

The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very…

— David Oyelowo

Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed…

— Ephrem the Syrian

All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

— J.R. Ward

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain…

— Herman Melville

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

— C. S. Lewis

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

— Anonymous

I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.

— P. T. Barnum

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

— Diogenes

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise,…

— Chanakya

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king…

— Stanley Baldwin

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

— Jane Austen

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

— Pete Townshend

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

— Alan Hirsch

I want people to know that they are the masters, the queens, kings, and gods of their own story.

— Clemantine Wamariya

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get…

— Mike Tyson

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

— William Shakespeare

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

— Elvis Presley