Urns Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls.…
— Colin McEnroe
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Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another…
— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through…
— Edward Gorey
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The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
— Robert Williams Buchanan
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Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man…
— Homer
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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns…
— Madeline Miller
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Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to…
— Catherine Martin
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At 5:30 the morning shift of commissary workers arrive to stock the coffee urns, bring in fresh food and prepare for the daylong job of…
— Francis X
Who Wrote These Urns Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Urns Quotes as follows: