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Quotes About Kingdoms

Tis a night for the fall of kingdoms, Robert.
~ Elizabeth Bear
But be the workmen what they may be, let us speak of the work; that is, the true greatness of kingdoms and estates, and the means thereof.
~ bacon francis xviii
No man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith) add a cubit to his stature, in this little model of a man's body; but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes or estates, to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we have now touched, they may sow greatness to their posterity and succession. But these things are commonly not observed, but left to take their chance.
~ bacon francis xx
How could anyone even start to put it all back together?' 'You start small,' said Dehlia. The raven had a very particular stare. Her single eye, bright with moonshine, was focused on Anya in a very alarming way. 'With a Quest to save one of those small kingdoms, and set it to rights, and have its ruler swear to uphold the bill. Then you go on from there.
~ Garth Nix
When God revealed through Daniel (Daniel 2), that there would be four world empires, with the fourth empire coming in two phases, the last in the end times, He made no mention of the "hammer of the whole earth" reigning at the same time as the revived Roman Empire. Not there.
~ John Price
Seven hundred years before John wrote these words about the Daughter of Babylon the prophet Isaiah wrote: "You said, 'I will continue forever–the eternal queen! But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen." (Isaiah 47:7) "Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called the queen of kingdoms." (Isaiah 47:5)
~ John Price
Daniel also prophesied that the Fourth World Empire "will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it". (Daniel 7:23).
~ John Price
It would be a pleasing speculation to see how the arbitrary divisions of kingdoms and provinces vary and become obsolete, and large towns flourish and fall again into ruins: while the great natural features, the mountains, rivers, and seas remain unchanged, by whatever names we please to call them, whatever empire encloses them within its temporary boundaries.
~ barbauld anna letitia iii
Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane, But the church of Jesus constant will remain. Gates of hell can never 'gainst that church prevail; We have Christ's own promise, and that cannot fail.
~ baring gould sabine viii
The truth is that banks are the last feudal kingdoms, their rulers omnipotent, divine warlords. Their key lieutenants are 'ronin' (wandering mercenary samurai) who roam financial markets ready to ally themselves to any warlord for a share of plunder. This is not the place to apply the latest management theory.
~ Satyajit Das
We shall remember ...... Damascus, the Pearl of the East, the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of princes and genii of the Arabian Nights,the oldest metropolis on Earth, the one city in all the world that has kept its name and held its place and looked serenely on while the Kingdoms and Empires of four thousand years have risen to life, enjoyed their little season of pride and pomp, and then vanished and been forgotten
~ Mark Twain
When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy.
~ Mark Twain
The past weaves all around this; we still duck in and out of its lost but shimmering kingdoms.
~ Martin Amis
The same make of organelles functions in the cells of mice and men; the same make of contractile protein serves the motion of amoeba and of the pianist's fingers; the same four chemical units constitute the alphabet of heredity throughout the animal and plant kingdoms-only the words are different for every creature.
~ Arthur Koestler
The prophecy is clear, Your Highness. The Messiah shall topple all the kingdoms of the world. Even yours.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
It must be admitted that such things were common coin of the period. Kingdoms were often handed over to adolescents, whose absolute power fasinated them as might a game. Hardly grown out of the age in which it is fun to tear the wings from flies, they might now amuse themselves by tearing the heads from men. Too young to fear or even imagine death, they would not hesitate to distribute it around them.
~ Maurice Druon
But these aren't just stories," she'd said. "They're whole kingdoms. They're worlds. They're perspectives and opinions you can't offer, from lives you haven't lived. They're more valuable than any gold coin, and more important than any state luncheon. I should hope you, as king, would know that!
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Man, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society. Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?
~ St. Augustine
In a word, human kingdoms are established by divine providence. And if any one attributes their existence to fate, because he calls the will or the power of God itself by the name of fate, let him keep his opinion, but correct his language.
~ St. Augustine
Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!
~ Susanna Clarke
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
~ T.S. Eliot
The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!
~ Tahir Shah
Common folk suffer when kingdoms rise, Common folk suffer when kingdoms fall.
~ Justin Hill
He created kingdoms, and then destroyed them as he made the world anew. We had the wrong gender all along.
~ Brandon Sanderson