(58 quotes found)
“The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliot
“Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.”
Tommy Lasorda
“In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads”
Charles Sprague
“I fished a lot, dove a lot, boated a lot - and made Johnny Walker Red about a quarter of a million dollars richer.”
Dennis Diaz
“Eagles do not beget Doves.”
Motto
“Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.”
Juvenal
“The moans of doves in immemorial elms,/ And murmuring of innumerable bees.”
“Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; / But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.”
Bible
“Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.”
