Famous quotes containing the word creatures:
“Unignorant,
modest and unemotional, and all emotion,
he has everlasting vigor,
power to grow,
though there are few creatures who can make one
breathe faster and make one erecter.”
—Marianne Moore (18871972)
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallows wings:
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“To a joke, then, I owe my first gleam of consciousnesswhich again has recapitulatory implications, since the first creatures on earth to become aware of time were also the first creatures to smile.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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