Kings Quotes - Page 25

• A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Loneliness, Boys, Clouds

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.81, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Years, Black, Santa

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.107, Broadway Books

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• A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Heart, Missing Him, Eight

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.75, Macmillan

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• The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

  Jenny Downham

  Sleep, Circles, Names

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• Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Bows

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• Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity

  Victoria Hanley

  Queens, Two, Tree

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• A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Daughter, Stars

  William Butler Yeats (1814). “The Land of Heart's Desire”, p.12

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• And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

  Robin McKinley

  Men, Thinking, Flames

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

  Robin McKinley

  Noses, Certain, Ability

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

  Tamora Pierce

  Maggots

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Lady Knight: Book 4 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.346, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

  Terry Pratchett

  Association, Management, Bethlehem

  Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Common Sense, Aristocracy

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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• England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

  Kage Baker

  Wife, England, Six

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.60, Macmillan

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• While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

  Plutarch

  Army, Greek, Trying

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• If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

  Blaise Pascal

  Plato, Order, Talking

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• Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

  Frank Peretti

  People, Killing, Murderer

  Ted Dekker, Frank E. Peretti (2008). “House (Movie Edition)”, p.91, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!

  Barack Obama

  Moon, Land, Yes We Can

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Smell

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear: Tragedies by William Shakespeare”, p.163, 谷月社

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• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Princess, Adventure

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• a king can only work with his best tools.

  T. H. White

  Tools

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.407, Penguin

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• No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Grief, Voice, Giving

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• ...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force." "An intelligent force?" said Will. "Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.

  John Flanagan

  Intelligent, Doe, Safe

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• For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, May 1974.

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• The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

  Anthony de Mello

  Bread, Philosopher, Eating

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.86, Image

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• If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Queens, Pain, Feet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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