Roving Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers. — Ellen Glasgow
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge… — Thomas Adams
Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'? — Bill Hicks
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of… — Robert Macfarlane
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but… — Elinor Lipman
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. — Lord Byron
Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world… — Hilary Thayer Hamann
Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission. — Ambrose Bierce
Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a $1.35 trillion cut,… — Jon Stewart
I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target. — Kenneth Williams
I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S.… — Mary Todd Lincoln
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright.… — Lord Byron
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. — John Donne
BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one… — Kay Ryan
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day… — Anne Bronte
He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would be… — Cassandra Clare
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members. — Mahatma Gandhi
Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit. — Maximillian Degenerez

Who Wrote These Roving Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 25 Roving Quotes as follows: