Dove Quotes

• I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, World

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• We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Mind, Tough

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

  Albert Camus

  Inspiring, Ideas, World

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• Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Love Is, Compassion, Tolerance

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• When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Heart, Angel, Wings

  Mary Baker Eddy (1969). “Christian Science Sentinel”

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• The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

  James Montgomery

  Love, Peace, Way

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• A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
  And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Life, Song, Messages

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

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• Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

  Leonard Cohen

  Olive Branches, Olives, Ends

  Song: Dance Me To The End Of Love, Album: Various Positions, 1984

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• I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian.

  John Woo

  Beautiful, Christian, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

  Heinrich Heine

  Love, Rose, Lilies

  Heinrich Heine (1856). “Heinrich Heine's Book of Songs”, p.109

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• Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Song, Heart

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1855). “The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott”, p.65

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• To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, Lonesome Dove, Stills

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• No doves come from ravens’ eggs

  Hannah Kent

  Eggs, Ravens

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

  John Clare

  Beautiful, Nature, Eagles

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.982, Delphi Classics

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• Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Basketball, Hands, Coaching

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• Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Dirty, Snakes

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.

  Charles Wesley

  Moving, Night, Light

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.964, Ravenio Books

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• Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

  Tamora Pierce

  Needs, Lonesome

  "The Big Bang Theory: The Proton Regeneration". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

  Erin Hunter

  Wings, Roaring, Lions

  Erin Hunter (2010). “Warriors: Omen of the Stars #3: Night Whispers”, HarperCollins

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• In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Men, World

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• And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Delight, Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.142

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• But remember when I moved in you
  And the holy dove was moving too
  And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

  Leonard Cohen

  Moving, Remember, Holy

  "Hallelujah". Song by Leonard Cohen, 1994.

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• Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

  Horace

  Eagles, Fierce

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• The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Peace, History, Bombers

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