(60 quotes found)
“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.”
Juvenal
“A thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.”
Lao Tzu
“Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.”
Saint Patrick
“Better to sink beneath the shock than molder piecemeal on the rock”
Lord Byron
“She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the time the rain had made her clothes cling to her body she looked more than naked, but she did not evince any confusion”
Jacques Casanova
“Toll for the brave - / The brave! that are no more: / All sunk beneath the wave, / Fast by their native shore.”
William Cowper
“She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.”
Bill Cosby
“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”
Chief Seattle
“And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: / A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.”
Bible
“There is a fountain filled with blood / Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; / And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, / Lose all their guilty stains.”
