Dove Quotes
203 Dove quotes by 161 unique authors
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The hallway led me to the stairway of a million steps. My leg screamed in protest. I sighed and started climbing. I just had to…
— Ilona Andrews
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When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move…
— James Jones
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One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark
— Franz Kafka
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The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen. "No," said Marged, not so certain. "Behold," Owen…
— Richard Llewellyn
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It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
— Jean Genet
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Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the poem is done.
— Buddy Wakefield
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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with…
— Christina Rossetti
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In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
— Ralph Ellison
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It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many…
— Erin Morgenstern
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A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets…
— Richard Dawkins
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's…
— Kim Harrison
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little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little…
— Charles Bukowski
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And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy—the kind of joy that can't be reproached,…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water. What was she thinking? She didn't take a rope…
— Rick Riordan
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Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In…
— William Shakespeare
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It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
— Clarice Lispector
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Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments - and then roared to deafening life. The Camaro lived…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.
— Marisha Pessl
Who Wrote These Dove Quotes
161 authors contributed a total of 203 Dove Quotes, led by these top contributors: