Crowns Quotes - Page 8

• It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory.
  But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.

  Steve Cauthen

  Greatness, Agony, Inspire

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• It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Greatness, Land

  Mark Twain, Arthur Grove Day (1975). “Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii”, p.274, University of Hawaii Press

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• When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Triumph, Purity, Clean

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• How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

  Hafez

  Excellence, Wish, Way

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• Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Song, Art, Believe

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

  Henci Goer

  Medicine, Skins, Tissues

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Storm, Battle, Triumph

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.

  J. Cole

  Silly, Winning, Awards

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• And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

  James Weldon Johnson

  War, Hands, Humanity

  James Weldon Johnson (2009). “Fifty years and Other Poems (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.

  James Packer

  Thinking, People, Upset

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• I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.

  Mary C. Ames

  Dream, Song, Baby

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Vanity, Attachment

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Drunk, Woe, Cups

  1821 Adonais, stanza 36.

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• The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Bed, Down And

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• I won a noble fame;
  But with a sudden frown,
  The people snatched my crown,
  And, in the mire, trod down
  My lofty name.

  Theodore Tilton

  Names, People, Noble

  Theodore Tilton, “Sir Marmaduke's Musings”

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• Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all the circumstance in our lives, we shall find that He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.

  Carrie Judd Montgomery

  Soul, Body, Able

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• He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

  Casey Stengel

  Winning, Years, League

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• Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior direct lineal heir of James Stuart, the Old Pretender of 1715. Had there been any Jacobites left in Britain in 1916, they would have had to regard this south German prince as their rightful king.

  David Frum

  Senior, Kings, Army

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• There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Crosses

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.57

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• An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humble, Soul, Looks

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.12

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• Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things (if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown!

  John Bunyan

  Exercise, Blow, Long

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1756, Delphi Classics

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• The kundalini of the supraconscious has nothing to do with the shushumna. That light comes down, from the crown center and has nothing to do with the opening. It descends and inundates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Opening

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• The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Lotuses

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• There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable. They still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Independence, Twenties

  "Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, May 1991.

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• The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Islands, Banking, World

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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