Quotes About Cave

L'uomo primitivo non conosceva il bar. Quando la mattina si alzava, nella sua caverna, egli avvertiva subito un forte desiderio di caffè. Ma il caffè non era ancora stato inventato e l'uomo primitivo aggrottava la fronte, assumendo la caratteristica espressione scimmiesca.

He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution.

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

That sweet muddy smell was purely animal, like the deepest corner of a bear's cave. It was almost foreign to me, this lived-in, overnight odor.

A few grass mats, some cave drawings, the heads of my enemies mounted on the wall ... it could be quite pleasant.

Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We're still in the cave. It's just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . .

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex—a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-Palaeolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep.

And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever some out? Not yet.

And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever come out? Not yet.

The forms of thought, into which we throw our timid views of God, are but symbols of truths greater than our thoughts. Yet we may not set them aside as worthless, for they are the rungs on which we dwellers in the cave climb to the full view of the Truth, as he is.

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

Inside every mind, there's a hermit's cave full of light.

the final secret, you must go To a burning mountain of ice and snow On wheels, by air, then all fall down, Till you come to the Cave of the Ancient Crown. Then speed to Camelot by close of day, Lest grief take Merlin forever away.

Gabe's room was as dark as a cave. He was asleep under the covers, a barely discernible lump.

If you ever land in a cave full of rock trolls, remember not to breathe deep. The air trapped in that cave hasn't been around any roses.

He and Sandstorm hunted and carried their fresh-kill back to the cave. But when he reached the entrance, Firestar stopped in surprise. The hollow in the cave floor was empty. Sky had gone.

No more here for me to do. I go back to sea cave, hear beating of waves on shore, rustle of wind in grasses.

While they might have got a bit fancier over the years, I still relish a good packed lunch if I am on the road, with that mounting excitement for a particular goodie I've wrapped up for the trip and the challenge of holding out for as long as I can before I cave.

The cave of Ozma has been discovered, and she is to come back and rule our Oz, and the idiotic Scarecrow can go stuff himself. Hah!Good one: a Scarecrow stuffing himself.

Habían llegado a una cueva. Tras los primeros sondeos, la arenisca había dado paso a una vena caliza comanchiense llena de diminutos fósiles de cefalópodos, corales, equinoideos y spirifera, con indicios ocasionales de esponjas silíceas y huesos de vertebrados marinos —probablemente de teleósteos, tiburones y ganoideos—

stuff, brocade, and valuable carpeting, piled upon one another; gold and silver ingots in great heaps, and money in bags. The sight of all these riches made him suppose that this cave must have been occupied for ages by robbers, who had succeeded one another. Ali Baba went boldly into the cave, and collected as much of the gold coin, which