Quotes about lions
lions summer-nights midsummer
William Shakespeare A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
lions hunters historian
Chinua Achebe There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
bears country lions mountain parts tend wolves
We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,
lions care proud
William Shakespeare Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!
voice monsters lions
William Shakespeare They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?
leopards lions
William Shakespeare Lions make leopards tame.
glorify hunt lions shall tales until
George Washington Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
heart lions may
Elizabeth I I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart
lions beast destruction
Elizabeth I Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
beard lions pluck
Juvenal Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
iron zion lions
Bob Marley I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion
three lions lioness
Bill Vaughan The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
america lions west
Bob Hope Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.
mind tests lions
Charles Krauthammer I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.
lions prologue
William Shakespeare Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
people lions sacred
David Quammen Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.
gone lions ifs
C. S. Lewis Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.
lying waiting lions
C. S. Lewis I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.
kings men lions
C. S. Lewis Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.
looks lions steps
C. S. Lewis I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.
children men lions
C. S. Lewis And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
mean our-world lions
C. S. Lewis This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
lions safe witch
C. S. Lewis He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
cutting lions teeth
Charles Caleb Colton He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
animal lions sulky
Charles Dickens Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
lions
Charles Spurgeon The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.
mad lions bees
August Strindberg Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.
lions may
August Wilson I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.
lions maybe tigers wish
I wish there were . . . tigers and lions and elephants. Hopefully, maybe in the future, they'll have those.
lions texas
Rick Reynolds We use it as a fundraiser for the Texas Lions Camp.
men tears lions
Bob Dylan Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.
contentment lions paws
Billy Collins But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.