Crescent Quotes
35 quotes by 27 authors
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I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I…
— George W. Bush
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Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
— William Faulkner
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The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun.
— Joan Miro
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Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody…
— Robert Todd Carroll
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Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there.…
— Diana Abu-Jaber
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The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There,…
— Joan Miro
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a…
— Wally Lamb
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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go,…
— Rumi
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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water…
— Rumi
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I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can
— Sylvia Plath
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The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.
— Rumi
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Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory…
— Alfred Worden
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Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner…
— Robert Hunter
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.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent…
— Robert Hunter
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I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
— Graham Joyce
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Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.
— Emily Dickinson
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When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where…
— Amy Neftzger
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Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent,…
— Lucy Larcom
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That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent…
— Raymond Carver
Who Wrote These Crescent Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 35 Crescent Quotes, led by these top contributors: