Best Dove Quotations
203 Dove quotes by 161 unique authors
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In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove,…
— Robert Underwood Johnson
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Coo...coo... here comes the dove from above!
— Vic Reeves
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This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the…
— John Woo
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As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every…
— John Dryden
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I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet…
— John Keats
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Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four…
— Robert Duvall
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'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem…
— James Fenton
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to…
— Faith Hill
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Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse…
— Jon Meacham
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I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar…
— Steven Tyler
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I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
— Jesse Ventura
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O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening…
— William Shakespeare
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People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you…
— Rumi
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The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even…
— Immanuel Kant
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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered…
— Michael Chabon
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And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological…
— Jack Kerouac
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At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
— Nikolai Gogol
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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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He stepped colser. Looked deep into my eyes. Hesitated a millisecond, and then dove in. "I think I'm falling in love with you." Oh. No.…
— Jennifer Rardin
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The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault
— Brandon Mull
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Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating…
— Rumi
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