Creeping

Famous quotes containing the word creeping:

“God keep me from the divinity of Yes and No ... the Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as all experimentalists must suppose.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“The whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)