Caves Quotes - Page 14

• People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

  David Mitchell

  People, Ems, World

  "Cloud Atlas: A Novel".

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• I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

  George R. R. Martin

  Snow, Want, Jon Snow

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.381, Bantam

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• What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. “It isn’t fair!” “No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a mile. The world’s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.

  Libba Bray

  Baby, Fighting, Daddy

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• Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Self

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.92, Profile Books

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• And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

  Daniel Keyes

  Plato, Eye, Men

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do you? You acknowledged her, Broud, she has beaten you. You did everything you could to her, you even cursed her. She's dead, and still she won. She was a woman, and she had more courage than you, Broud, more determination, more self-control. She was more man than you are. Ayla should have been the son of my mate.

  Jean M. Auel

  Determination, Son, Men

  Jean M. Auel (2013). “The Earth's Children Series 6-Book Bundle: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, The Land of Painted Caves”, p.665, Bantam

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• What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Autism, Done

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• How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Winter, Would Be

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Wall, Hands

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• Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.

  Sylvia Plath

  Rose, Hung

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Wish, World

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• Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. ʺI need a coffee shop or something.ʺ ʺI think I saw one in a cave down the road,ʺ I said. That almost got a smile from her

  Richelle Mead

  Coffee, Thinking, Clothes

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• For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

  Steve Martin

  Believe, Loss, Thinking

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Library, Made, Wanted

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• ...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Shut Up

  Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Darkness, Sun

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• Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming?

  Ally Carter

  Switzerland, Sunglasses, Needs

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.307, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Men, Two

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• I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Baseball, Believe, Heart

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• So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government.

  Gideon Rachman

  Wall, Mean, Opportunity

  "Financial Times Editorial Admits Agenda For Dictatorial World Government" by Paul Joseph Watson, www.infowars.com. December 9, 2008.

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• The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Dwelling, Insanity

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.5, New World Library

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• John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table.

  Mike Huckabee

  Giving, Pakistan, Tables

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.politico.com. September 3, 2008.

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• I mean, it really has a lot to do with who is actually physically doing a lot of talking. And we've just noticed that as we've evolved we're still making all the decisions from this, like, "cave."

  Mark Duplass

  Mean, Talking, Decision

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We work in this cave, and we speak to each other sort of subconsciously and with like, weird cues and tangential brother speak, but it really comes down to if you are the person who is moving amongst the actors and talking to people more, the other one can have a little more time to really watch.

  Mark Duplass

  Brother, Moving, Talking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The definition of who's literate and who's not keeps changing. So, in Neanderthal times, if you painted on a cave wall, that was enough to transmit how you hunt, how you eat, how you cook, how you dress, and we can read about that.

  Juan Enriquez

  Wall, Neanderthals, Dresses

  Source: bigthink.com

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