Gates Quotes - Page 11

• Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Long Ago, Sea, Together

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

  Kobayashi Issa

  Walking Sticks, Rivers, Snow

  15 Copy quote

• I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

  Richelle Mead

  Soul, Pieces, Cry

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.230, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

  Homer

  Dream, Two, Ivory

  4 Copy quote

• You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

  Betty Smith

  Nice, Sunday, Air

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

  Gertrude Stein

  Determination, Doors, Spoons

  Gertrude Stein (1997). “Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms”, p.23, Courier Corporation

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Welcome, I Missed You, Where You Belong

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.35, Vintage Canada

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten

  Kelley Armstrong

  Should Have, Two, Waiting

  4 Copy quote

• Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.

  Shirley Jackson

  Fate, Littles, Sugar

  4 Copy quote

• Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)

  George Sterling

  Dream, Wind, Roots

  George Sterling (1908). “A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Paradise, Cruelty

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog.

  Jean Vanier

  Dog, Taken, Compassion

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.16, Paulist Press

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Home, Night, Journey

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.73, Tachyon Publications

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Song, Years

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XL: A Message Came”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Journey, Garden

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.126, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Two, House

  4 Copy quote

• Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Running, Sweet, Prayer

  18 Copy quote

• It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Two, Age, Half

  11 Copy quote

• WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Weather, Shepherds

  Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) "Weathers"

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

  Anne Rice

  Mean, Thinking, Endless

  Anne Rice (1993). “Lasher”, Alfred A. Knopf Canada

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ranger’s gonna hate this,” Tank said. “Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel.

  Janet Evanovich

  Horse, Hate, Smell

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Plum Lucky”, p.93, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

  Joan Bauer

  Morning, Sometimes, Standing

  8 Copy quote

• In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.

  Thomas Friedman

  America, Bills, Today

  4 Copy quote

• We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Distance, Views

  5 Copy quote

• Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺ ʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.

  Richelle Mead

  Wall, Opening Up, Stuff

  12 Copy quote