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Creatures Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
- The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
- It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing…
- I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a…
- I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
More Creatures Quotes
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- 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