Quotes About King

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

If I ever become a king, I'm totally going to ask him for an army of giant golden acid-spitting llamas. Okay, sorry. I got distracted again.

We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a teddy bear. I placed the war flail across his lap, hoping it might make a difference—maybe complete his powers or something. No such luck. Sick weasels, Ra muttered. Behold, Sadie said bitterly. the glorious Ra.

You are the ghost king, a voice said. I am, Nico thought. This is where you belong. But then Nico raised his head. Looked at the other two passengers. Will, whose face was strained as he reached down with a shaking hand to grab at him. Nico took it, gripped his boyfriend's hand tight, and thought, No. This is where I belong.

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

There will one day come a girl child who will unseat a king and bring about a great change.

Because we must act to make our fate come true, said the king.

Whoever heard of a king who was scared of tall trees and a little bit of water?

If fairness were the rule, the good would not die young, as Coryn, the king of the Great Tree, had.

Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who're always laughing.

3,117 people had lost their lives in the flood. And the king had missed breakfast

The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery.

He was only a boy from a Welsh hill village who had the good fortune to become a monk. Today he would speak to the king. What gave him the right?

The king's visit to Coligny's sickbed

Por favor, señor, ¿es el rey de Inglaterra? El empleado sonrió. —No, amigo, solo es el conde de Walden.

He is now king of Scotland in all but legitimacy!

In Paris the citizens had slaughtered defenseless women and children in the thousands. How could God permit it? And then, to make it worse, the Pope had sent a letter of congratulation to the king of France. That could not be God's will. Hard though it was to believe, the Pope had done wrong.

La discussion du jour porterait assurément sur la politique. Anthony était revenu la veille d'un séjour de deux semaines à Gloucester où il avait assisté à l'inhumation du roi Edouard II, qui avait perdu son trône au mois de janvier, puis la vie en septembre.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.