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Quotes About Cave

Woman," Michele said. "You look like you're calling from a cave. Tell me Texas hasn't retreated to the dark ages." "It's ahead of California, if you ask the sun, and everybody in the state," Caitlin said.
~ Meg Gardiner
The fact that the Republican Party in particular often seems to stand for principle, only to cave in to pressure at the last minute, has turned off a huge number of voters.
~ Ben Carson
From Pythagoras (whether by way of Socrates or not) Plato derived the Orphic elements in his philosophy: the religious trend, the belief in immortality, the other-worldliness, the priestly tone, and all that is involved in the simile of the cave; also his respect for mathematics, and his intimate intermingling of intellect and mysticism.
~ Bertrand Russell
The red mammoth in the cave at Pindal is very special because its heart, also red, is depicted inside its chest.
~ Juan Luis Arsuaga
La versión que el veterano improvisó era tan real como puede ser un dinosaurio visto a través del ojo de la cerradura de la cueva antediluviana: los pedazos muy precisos y detallados; el animal, desconocido, hipotético.
~ Juan Sasturain
We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.
~ Alex Pareene
The cave smelt of the sea, but it was not a cheerful seaside smell. It reeked as if the sea were something old and evil. This sea licked the flesh off shipwrecks, leaving the bare wooden bones in the lightless deep. Its mermaids were green-skinned and squid-eyed with long, hooked fingers and breath that smelt of old fish.
~ Frances Hardinge
No, that flapping isn't all the pigeons in the park zeroing in on some spilled popcorn! That antediluvian (old and prehistoric) scream that's numbing your brain isn't a subway on a curve! No, it's the one and only Thunderbird --just released from a long, long nap in a cave on the Kijowa reservation by Tom Tallwolf and J. Jay Jaye, known as The Big Promoter! But it looks like all he's promoted now is...trouble with wings!
~ Bob Haney
Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.
~ Simon McBurney
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
~ Iris Murdoch
Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.
~ Sylvia Plath
Los valientes y los locos a menudo viven en la misma cueva, decimos nosotros. Binabik
~ Tad Williams
There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names—calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.
~ Francis Bacon
The only thing more alarming that what is in that cave will be your punishment if we somehow survive.
~ Brandon Mull
gently. The rumbling was now distant. This part of the cave seemed to be in no danger of collapse. "Let's get outside," Nate said. "You know, just in case." Jeanine got to her feet, Chris carried Katie, and the group made their way out through the cave mouth. Nate felt relieved to see the blue sky and to breathe air that didn't smell of dust and minerals.
~ Brandon Mull
I smiled, then realized I was talking to a weird cave slug, which was a new low even for me.
~ Brandon Sanderson
After a night's sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast. 'Pray tell me any thing new that has happened to a man any where on this globe,' — and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wichito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
~ Mo Rocca
Moss covered grotto
~ Stephen Arnott
Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness.
~ Stephen J. Nichols
Though it may seem a remote possibility to us now, during the formation of the human brain the fear of being grabbed by sharp claws, dragged into a dark hole, and eaten alive was not an abstraction.
~ Stephen T. Asma
as he slept in a cave, he dreamed that he saw his own body sleeping. He came out of the cave on the night of a new moon. The sky was clear, and he could see millions of stars. Then something happened inside of him
~ Miguel Ruiz
One day, as he slept in a cave, he dreamed that he saw his own body sleeping. He came out of the cave on the night of a new moon. The sky was clear, and he could see millions of stars. Then something happened inside of him that transformed his life forever. He looked at his hands, he felt his body, and he heard his own voice say, "I am made of light; I am made of stars.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.
~ Sylvia Plath