Arms Quote by Edward Gibbon

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

— Abraham Lincoln

Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and…

— Cormac McCarthy

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

— Markus Zusak

“When heavy cloud decks enveloped the planet, they created a whole new surface that had never before existed, of high mountain ranges, tumbling ravines.…

— Alan Shepard

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

— John Steinbeck

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before…

— Calvin Trillin

“This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in…

— Plato

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

— John Guare

“Just like that. It had been almost seven years since the legions left our shores, having declared the Island of the Mighty sufficiently conquered.…

— Lesley Livingston

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of…

— Charles Dickens