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Creatures Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance…
- A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form…
- PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous,…
- BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it…
- Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
- The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
- Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.…
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- Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar