Quotes of Dove - somelinesforyou

“ For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I fished a lot, dove a lot, boated a lot - and made Johnny Walker Red about a quarter of a million dollars richer. ”

- Dennis Diaz

“ There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. ”

- Edward Lear

“ Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ 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.

“ She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. ”

- Chiang Kai shek

“ Oh, that I had wings like a dove! ”

- Bible

“ Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. ”

- John Dryden

“ I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hands. If you hold it too tightly, you crush it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. ”

- Tommy Lasorda

“ Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. ”

- John Dryden

“ 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

“ Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. ”

- Unknown

“ Eagles do not beget Doves. ”

- Motto

“ Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ How beautiful you are, my dearest, O how beautiful, your eyes are like doves. ”

- The Bible

“ Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ”

- Bible

“ I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the very early period, because I recognized that the Palestinians weren't going to go away, and they weren't going to remain passive. And all of these predictions were correct… ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless… ”

- Maya Angelou
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