Praying Mantis Styles

Famous quotes containing the words praying, mantis and/or styles:

    I’m folding up my little dreams
    Within my heart tonight,
    And praying I may soon forget
    The torture of their sight.
    Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886–1966)

    The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.
    Chinese proverb.

    For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)