Quotes About King

the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

But God will live in our midst only as the King, nothing less.

He thought reporters a nuisance and at first refused to deal with them at all. It was said, half-jokingly, that King would have liked to say nothing until the end of the war, and then release a two-word communiqué: "We won

The thief who has not been caught is a king.

El ladrón que no ha sido atrapado es un rey.

They call my little Joan the most beautiful woman in all England. Well, every father thinks that about his daughter. That she is special, and prettier. But I never had the opportunity to boast. My name is Edmund of Woodstock and I am the son of a king and the brother of a king and the grandfather of a king.

I was twenty-nine years old when I died. Died; I use the term loosely. I was murdered, but within the dictates of the law and with the full approval of the king, even though he was barely eighteen years at the time.

He was my first sight of a king, and I thought they were a different breed of men, a thread of gold above the rest of us. How I wish that were true.

Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.

although the dominion of darkness is very real, its days are numbered because the Alpha and the Omega—the "Guardian King"—is real too, and he is victorious.

Corfu, so the King asked Venetia if she would act as his hostess for the weekend at Sandringham: he could never bear

God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender; God bless – no harm in blessing – the Pretender; But who Pretender is, or who is King, God bless us all – that's quite another thing! John Byrom: To an Officer in the Army

For he seemed to me again like a king,Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,Now due to be crowned again.

In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.

Once the game is over,' " he says, " 'the king and the pawn go back in the same box.' " "In life and death we are equal.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn really do go back in the same box. In death they are indeed equal. But in life, we are not. In life we are a product of more than our decisions. We are the consequence of how we cope with those decisions, and too often that is fear and guilt. Don't let it be fear and guilt.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; But somebody or other rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.

Bright is the diadem, boundless the sway, Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day!

the shutters, we both know in a bone-deep way that there's nothing else to say. I have a kid. He wants freedom. Kids and freedom are mutually exclusive. If the queen had balls, she'd be the king. Voilà—I had my presenting problem.

Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place