Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the language spoken by angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

Jose Saramago

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

Jorge Luis Borges

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

Joni Mitchell

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

Joni Mitchell

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

Kelley Armstrong

You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait.

Kelley Armstrong

Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.

Khalil Gibran

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

Khalil Gibran

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

Khalil Gibran

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

Ludwig Feuerbach

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Maimonides

For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge...

Maimonides

All forces that reside in the body are angels.

Maimonides

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

Norman Mailer

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Norman Reedus

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

Orlando Bloom

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

Orhan Pamuk

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

Orison Swett Marden

There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'

Omar Khayyam

So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.

Emilie Autumn

What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?

Ellen G. White

When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.

Ellen G. White

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

Emily Dickinson

She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.

Emily Dickinson

We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

Emanuel Swedenborg

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

Emanuel Swedenborg

And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Henri Nouwen

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

Hilary Duff

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

Henry Ward Beecher

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

Henry Ward Beecher

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.