Creatures

Famous quotes containing the word creatures:

“O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubims! And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die; but all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings:
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Some creatures are made to see in the dark.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)