Gate Quotes
409 quotes by 313 authors
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..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks…
— John Steinbeck
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He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so…
— Mark Helprin
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wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
— Friedrich Schiller
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I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in…
— William Blake
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would…
— Alice Hoffman
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Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful…
— John Milton
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When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a…
— Louise Rennison
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She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little…
— Emily Dickinson
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before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow
— Kobayashi Issa
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I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back…
— Richelle Mead
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through…
— Betty Smith
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.
— Kelley Armstrong
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I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago."…
— Kelley Armstrong
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...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community.…
— Jean Vanier
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She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk…
— Neil Gaiman
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As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred…
— Nelson Mandela
Who Wrote These Gate Quotes
313 authors contributed a total of 409 Gate Quotes, led by these top contributors: