Doves Quotes
57 quotes by 56 authors
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The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.
— Nikita Khrushchev
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And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a…
— John the Apostle
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Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
— Albert Camus
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Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight,…
— Toni Morrison
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a…
— Amos Oz
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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he…
— Mark Twain
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For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.
— George Aiken
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It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the…
— Syncletica of Alexandria
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I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a room. You know…
— Daniel Tosh
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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and…
— Heinrich Heine
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14…
— Lance Burton
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The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,…
— Eric Hoffer
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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
— Ovid
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,…
— Alexander Pope
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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
Who Wrote These Doves Quotes
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