Arches Quotes

111 Arches quotes by 97 unique authors

When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will… — Flannery O'Connor
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. — Harry Seidler
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace… — Ayn Rand
I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a… — Erma Bombeck
The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it. — Maureen Howard
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the… — Tony Wilson
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me… — Mark Lawrence
The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over… — Charles Spurgeon
Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. — Kublai Khan
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see… — John Huston
I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she… — Christian Louboutin
The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume,… — J C Ryle
Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap. — Diplo
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci
I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and… — Homer
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… — Washington Irving
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts — Seneca the Younger
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying… — Lisa See
The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. — Eric Schlosser
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting. — Robert Southey
I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat… — Jerome K. Jerome

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