Golden Calf Story

Famous quotes containing the words golden, calf and/or story:

    “As I have known them passionate and fine,
    The gold for which they leave the golden line
    Of lyric is a golden light divine,
    Never the gold of darkness from a mine.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Isaiah 11:6.

    “So every journey that I make
    Leads me, as in the story he was led,
    To some new ambush, to some fresh mistake:
    So every journey I begin foretells
    A weariness of daybreak, spread
    With carrion kisses, carrion farewells.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)