Reaper Quotes
75 quotes by 47 authors
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.
— Robert Alton Harris
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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
— John Milton
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that…
— Christopher Hitchens
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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
— Randy Pausch
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I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.
— Mac Miller
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the…
— Polly Adler
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A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the…
— Pam Muñoz Ryan
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We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.
— Randy Pausch
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving…
— Alexander Pope
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his…
— Federico Fellini
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The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for…
— Mick Fleetwood
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Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also…
— Ellen Muth
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Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated…
— Francois Arago
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But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his…
— Heinrich Heine
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Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest…
— Sarah Doudney
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Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.
— Taliesin
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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Who Wrote These Reaper Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 75 Reaper Quotes, led by these top contributors: