Moors Quotes

50 quotes by 40 authors

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen. — Miyamoto Musashi
A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding… — Emily Bronte
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early… — Thomas Jefferson
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by… — Peter Carey
We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star. — John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind… — Paul Kingsnorth
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. — Publilius Syrus
The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. — Friedrich Schiller
There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so… — George Washington
To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing. — Simon Schama
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. — Epictetus
We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success… — Maya Angelou
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors… — Ray Bradbury
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy… — Emily Bronte
And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly — James Herriot

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