Famous quotes containing the words fire, giant and/or king:
“Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning ones clothes? Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet? So is he who sleeps with his neighbors wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:27-29.
“The point of the dragonflys terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesnt ... but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the worlds water and weather, the worlds nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“There is no king or sovereign state
That can fix a heros rate;
Each to all is venerable.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)