D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Down on our knees, we wage the holy war. We shall prevail in prayer.”
“Down on the beach the three children stood unmoving in the late afternoon gloaming, their arms linking them together, watching transfixed while the tall grey man approached them with a steady step. He carried a long pole with what at that distance resembled an old-fashioned lantern at its tip. As he drew close to the trio the lamp brightened, enveloping them in its glow. Then suddenly and silently the light was extinguished, leaving only the grey man standing motionless on the sand.”
Source: Cerberus
“Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.”
“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.”
“Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.”
“Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.”
“Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.”
“Down the blue night the unending columns press
In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow”
Source: Collected Poems
“down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went
and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home”
Source: The odyssey
“Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.”
“Down the hall the children slept three to a bedroom; Hattie could almost hear them growing, their wrists lengthening and poking out beyond the cuffs of their sleeves, their feet outgrowing their shoes, their shoulders widening and pulling the fabric of their coats taut.”
Source: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
“Down the hall where free day care was being offered, children of parents in the workshops were likewise learning Imago dialogue, and I stopped in to watch. 'What I'm hearing you saying is my bike was in the driveway and you hurt your leg,' one second grader told another kid. 'Did I get that right?”
Source: Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed
“Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy”
Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
“Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.”
“Down the narrow trail
to the sound of sea lions
barking their belonging,
we wandered into their world,
the one we thought was ours.”
Source: Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
“Down the road...”
“Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.”
“Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love.”
“Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails”
“Down the road the voice of a child called out the adhan from the megaphone of a mosque’s citadel, and even with the static and the echo and the cracking of his pitch, it sounded so sweet in the fading light, with the fields darkening, and the crickets chirping their songs.”
Source: 99 Nights in Logar
“Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.”
“Down the run, the rivers have many obstacles,
Some created rift valleys and some got crooked..”
“down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on. They protect them from falling
bricks, I guess.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid.”
“Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.”
Source: Unspoken
“Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.”
“Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?”
Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
“Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.”
Source: Inkheart
“Down these mean crates a man must dig." page 41.”
Source: Written in Dead Wax
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid”
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world”
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
“Down through the ages and in the whole world, Watt and Newton cannot have been the only ones to notice the steam from a boiling kettle or observe an apple fall. Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.”
Source: Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
“Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Down through the centuries, the Savior has repeatedly lifted the fallen from the holes they've dug for themselves one shovel scoop at a time. After His grand rescue, the Redeemer does not always seal that hole shut behind us. He does not force us into relationship or bully us into repentance. Instead, He leaves us with a choice: follow Me or fall again.”
Source: Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes
“Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.”
Source: Hail, Holy Queen
“Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.”
“Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.”
“Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.”
“Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed”
“Down time is not the name of the game.”
“Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.”
“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Source: The Story of the Gadsbys
“Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.”
“Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.”
Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There's something in this richness that I hate.
I love the look, austere, immaculate,
Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.”
Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie
“Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“down unlit ,unmarked & forgotten roads of REASON & PURPOSE”