Dragon Quotes

• Talented or not, I would never assign anyone as young as you two to oversee any preserve, let alone a dragon sanctuary, except as a last resort.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Young
  • Talented
  • Resort

• I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.

  

  Confucius
  • Heaven
  • Animals
  • Birds

• I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome... you get to fly.

  

  Josh Keaton
  • Fly
  • Being
  • Dragon

• You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to the most emotional part of their life, what they did when they were younger... I think I am going to be cursed with reliving 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' in my mind. And playing 'Dragon's Layer' when I enter Alzheimer's.

  

  Rich Moore
  • People
  • Mind
  • Kind

• He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.

  

  Angie Sage
  • Breath
  • Smell
  • Dragon

• The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • World
  • Dragon

• The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • First
  • Second
  • Nightmares

• Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Believe
  • Humans
  • Mistakes

• I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mother
  • Language
  • I Remember

• The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Courage
  • Learn
  • Grace

• Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

  

  Edward Topsell
  • Dragon
  • Serpents

• A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Girl
  • Young
  • Looks Like

• I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with a mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Story
  • Hero
  • Train

• I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.

  

  Eloise Jarvis McGraw
  • Change
  • Sorry
  • Dragon

• Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Speak
  • Dragon
  • Politely

• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when, beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashings of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a damned fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with that same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke the thought aloud, 'Why don't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrades, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  

  Ernest Thayer
  • Smile
  • Appreciate
  • Wrestling

• Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Love
  • Alive
  • Jealousy

• No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Jesus
  • Superstition
  • Knocked over

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