Cave Quotes
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Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
Plato -
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
Ed Stoppard
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We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
Edwidge Danticat -
They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave.
Hank Snow -
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
Karl Pilkington -
Dere is one cave,” remarked the guide, “not far off to here. P’raps we be safe if we git into ’im. But I ’fraid it not do, cause him be peepiled by fiends an’ dead man’s spirits.
R. M. Ballantyne -
I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.
Sam Brownback -
We'll probably put this trophy in the man cave.
Tyler Hubbard Florida Georgia Line
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The elaborately executed art on the ceiling in the Altamira cave did not fit current notions of Palaeolithic ‘savagery’; it was too ‘advanced’ for the period.
David Lewis-Williams -
I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy -
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Do I want to take my turn forgetting, to look inwards into the hazy darkness of that cave? I do. Yes, I do.
Cate Kennedy -
Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
The only thing more alarming that what is in that cave will be your punishment if we somehow survive.
Brandon Mull
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And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.
Thomas Hobbes -
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
Abraham Coles -
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.
Rudyard Kipling -
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn -
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.
Joy Williams -
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
Stephen Gardiner
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The cave room faced south, and that night I looked out from its frame on the moonlit talus below and the pines beyond and thought that whether Indian or White one was fortunate indeed to live for a time in a world of such beauty.
Elsie Clews Parsons -
The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
Susan Minot