Crept Quotes

96 quotes by 81 authors

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are… — Thomas Jefferson
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where… — John Steinbeck
When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown… — Henry Twells
Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable… — Toni Morrison
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. — William Shakespeare
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and… — Pope Pius XII
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall… — William Jacob Holland
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in… — Annie Proulx
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating.… — Mati Unt
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept… — Albert Einstein
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let… — Werner Herzog
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slimeâ€”oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping… — Diana Wynne Jones
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from outside. It happened… — Bryan Mealer
Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit… — Colson Whitehead
As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong. — Frederic Chopin
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian… — David M. Raup
There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little… — Brit Hume
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up… — W. Somerset Maugham
One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I… — J. Reuben Clark

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