Gates Quote by William Shakespeare

“At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

— Miguel de Cervantes

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us…

— Steve Rushin

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God…

— John Muir

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

— Isaac Newton

Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.

— George R. R. Martin

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and…

— Jonathan Swift

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

— Anonymous

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

— Malcolm Gladwell

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

— Douglas Preston

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich