Quotes About Kingdoms

In his scheme, Mercia would not simply dominate neighbouring kingdoms; it would annex them,

it implies that initially there may have been quite a lot of kingdoms

twenty years since the arrival of the great heathen army that had destroyed three of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

he travelled through the lands of Charles the Bald,

all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms had now accepted the faith of Christ.

Wilfrid did not go quietly. He protested to the bishops of other kingdoms

Scandinavians knew all about the rich coastal communities of the kingdoms to the south,

A wonderful thing one learns when one writes about imaginary kingdoms for a living is that, in fact, anyone can imagine anything, and if the writer is good, they can do it persuasively.

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals. Nature uses both kingdoms to form all existing combustible mat

I know hundreds of miles separate us. I know you have your endless duties here and I have mine in Dalbreck. But we've done the impossible, Lia. If we can find a way to end centuries of animosity between the kingdoms … surely … we can find a way for us.

it was only me, a thousand blinking stars, and the beauty of darkness stretched to the ends of the universe, snuffing out the endless games of courts and kingdoms.

If ever there were three mismatched riders, it was us- the crown prince of Dalbreck, the Assassin of Venda, and the fugitive princess of Morrighan. Sons and daughter of three kingdoms, each bent on domination of the other two.

Colonel Bodeen's mouth quirked awkwardly to the side. "And she is … your prisoner?" Considering the circumstances, the current animosity between our kingdoms, and my wretched appearance, it wasn't an unlikely conclusion. Orrin snorted. Sven coughed. "No, Colonel," Rafe answered. "Princess Arabella is your future queen.

If ever there were three mismatched riders, it was us-the crown prince of Dalbreck, the Assassin of Venda, and the fugitive princess of Morrighan. Sons and Daughter of three kingdoms each bent on the domination of the other two.

It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on foot by the thoughts we shelter. Our myriad intuitions are the veiled queens who steer our course through life, though we have no words in which to speak of them. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words!

She made a sound of regret. 'We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,' she said. 'Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.' She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. 'This is not our time.' 'But that will never mean I love you less,' he said.

Brothers always. Balthazar is with us too. We make this work,' Finnikin said fiercely. 'We bring peace to these kingdoms. We deserve it. Our women do. All of us have lost too much, Froi. We've lost the joy of being children. Let's not take that from Jasmina and Tariq and those who come after them

Froi didn't know where home was anymore. He wanted to return to Lumatere, and he wanted to stay in Charyn. What strangeness was that? To belong in two kingdoms. He felt a sob rise within him that he swallowed hard the moment he felt Lirah and Gargarin at his shoulders.

This is typical of what the New Testament declares: God is king, and the kingdoms of the world are thereby demoted.

The kingdoms of the world run on violence. The kingdom of God, Jesus declared, runs on love. That is the good news.

The kingdoms of the world run on violence. The kingdom of God, Jesus declared, runs on love.

The title 'Lord of All-Rus' did not possess much basis either in history or in current reality. It came into the same category as that whereby the kings of England laid claim to France. In the 1490s, two-and-a-half centuries after all traces of a united Kyivan Rus' had been destroyed, it had the same degree of credibility that the king of France might have enjoyed if, in his struggle with the German Empire, he had proclaimed himself 'Lord of all the Franks'.

Los reinos tienen los príncipes que se merecen, las hijas de los granjeros mueren sin razón, y algunas veces las brujas son dignas de salvación.

Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised. Conor