Cressida Cowell Quotes

And long after Kings are forgotten, and their names have fallen into dust, the good deeds and the actions of the Heroes live on in glory.

Cressida Cowell

• Glory
• Actions
• Forgotten
• Kings
• Heroes

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Media
  • Destroy
  • Heroes

• Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Result
  • Actions

• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Heroes
  • Identify
  • Clint

• Each is responsible for his own actions.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Own
  • Actions
  • Responsible

• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Books
  • Forgotten
  • Remembered

• Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Conclusion

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • New York

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
  • Forgotten
  • Bear

• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Kings
  • Stone

• Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Family
  • Two
  • Heroes

• The environment shapes people's actions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Environment
  • Actions

• I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Actions
  • Aware
  • Repercussion

• We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Actions
  • Citizens
  • Be Careful

• Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Born
  • Kings
  • Artificial

• Due to the unrelenting 'self-promoting' actions of the committee's investigative coordinator, I have been unable to implement the standards of professional conduct I have been accustomed to at the United States attorney's office,

  

  Dan Burton
  • Professional
  • Actions
  • Investigative

• Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Process
  • Information
  • Actions

• Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Clothes
  • Kings
  • Lace

• It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Question

• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• Granting, I say that competition has hitherto been the universal law, the last word, of nature, still if only one man should stand up and say, 'It shall be so no more,' if he should say, 'It is not the last word of my nature, and my acts and life declare that it is not,' then that so-called law would be at an end.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nature

• All they had to do was pick off a mammoth or a giant ground sloth every so often, when the opportunity arose, and keep this up for several centuries. This would have been enough to drive the populations of slow-reproducing species first into decline and then, eventually, all the way down to zero.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Opportunity
  • Species
  • Populations

• And long after Kings are forgotten, and their names have fallen into dust, the good deeds and the actions of the Heroes live on in glory.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Glory
  • Actions
  • Forgotten