Druids Quotes

• This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Ocean, Twilight, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.98

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• We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Horse, Father, Blue

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• To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Men, Forever

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• Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

  Kate Horsley

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• Silly dark elves. Earth is for Druids.

  Kevin Hearne

  Silly, Dark, Earth

  Kevin Hearne (2013). “Hunted: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Six”, p.18, Del Rey

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• HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Journey, Knives

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.111, Oberon Books

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• We all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you got to let it grow...

  John Lennon

  Life, Flower, Love Is

  "Song: Mind Games". October 29, 1973.

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• The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

  Thomas Cahill

  World, Shapes, Poet

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “How the Irish Saved Civilization”, p.129, Anchor

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• My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Sacrifice

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• And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Sex, Night

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Time, Darkness

  1916 'Break of Day in theTrenches'.

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• In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

  Anne Royall

  Country, Brother, Atheism

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• Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Giants, Savages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• "Chaunt in his ear delusions magical,
  That he may fight the horses of the sea."
  The Druids took them to their mystery,
  And chaunted for three days.

  William Butler Yeats

  Horse, Fighting, Sea

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Heart, Blood

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual, fringed by thick dark lashes, but gold nonetheless. "What is with your eyes?" she exclaimed. "Is it part of being a Druid?" "What color are they?" he asked warily. "Gold." He flashed her another unguarded smile. It was like basking in the sun, she thought, tracing her fingers over his beard-shadowed jaw, smiling helplessly back.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Dark, Color

  Karen Marie Moning (2002). “The Dark Highlander”, p.264, Dell

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• Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.” The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.

  Brom

  Love, Christian, Blood

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• I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world and they tend to geek out like Joss Whedon fans when I show up.

  Kevin Hearne

  Tree, Fans, World

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.294, Del Rey

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• In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Shepherds, Crooks

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• Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones.

  Kevin Hearne

  Dark, July, Creative

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five”, p.162, Del Rey

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• Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Thinking, Two

  Karen Marie Moning (2005). “Spell of the Highlander”, Random House LLC

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• Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Giving, Age, Taste

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.165

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• Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Effort, Stones

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Ballantine Books

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• Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Soccer, Team, Hippie

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Buddhist, Atheist, Believe

  Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Eternal”, p.91, Candlewick Press

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