Lions Quotes - Page 32

• When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body as a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. [from the poem "When Death Comes"]

  Mary Oliver

  Flower, Sisterhood, Thinking

  Mary Oliver, “When Death Comes”

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• The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, Ignorance

  "The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

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• I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

  Tippi Hedren

  Football, Player, Helping

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• Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Time, Flower, Tenderness

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

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• Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

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• The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Challenges, Wicked

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.164, Image

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• I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Holiday, Pride

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• The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fire, Breathing, Devil

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• I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Mind, Tests, Dens

  The NewsBusters Interview, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2012.

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• Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

  Adam Savage

  Ignorance, Depth, Tasks

  "Adam Savage's first step of project planning: make a list". www.wired.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I just want to cuddle with my Lion and give him all the love nobody in the world has given him but me.

  Katy Evans

  Giving, Want, World

  Katy Evans (2013). “Mine”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• ...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Fall, Animal

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

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• ~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to be put in its place - [the kids] live here as much as we do. You come into our house and a giant elephant and lion are welcoming you. We have toys and things everywhere.~

  Heidi Klum

  Kids, Parenting, Museums

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• He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Promise, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.131

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• My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

  Yann Martel

  Pride, Childhood, Alarms

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?

  Terry Pratchett

  Ark, Tigers

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• I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.

  Joanne Harris

  Drama, Autumn, Doors

  Joanne Harris (2005). “Gentlemen and players”, Doubleday UK

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• A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

  Washington Irving

  Dog, Sleep, Pet

  Washington Irving (1862). “Works of Washington Irving”, p.221

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• The lions sing and the hills take flight.
  The moon by day, and the sun by night.
  Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
  Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

  Robert Jordan

  Children, Moon, Night

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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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, Dove

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

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• And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Stupid, Twilight

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• Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

  Thomas Harris

  Thinking, Answers, Honey

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man goodness, the miser with generosity, and the liar with truth. (Indian proverb) It sounds good, doesn’t it? If only people and life were that effing easy. Trust me, it takes more than a friendly biscuit to tame a hungry lion. And it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it’s war. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Fun, War

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.1, Macmillan

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• The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, Cracks, Citizens

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.260

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• O, the blood more stirs
  To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Blood, Hares

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. 197

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