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Quotes About Wild

For he comes, the human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, From a world more full of weeping than he can understand.
~ W. B. Yeats
Look, Mom," Maggie Rose said softly. "Lily's doing her job, and Casey's helping!" "You're right," Mom said, just as softly. "I've never seen a wild animal calm down so quickly. Sometimes when animals are frightened, seeing something completely unexpected takes their mind off what's scaring them. Like a bird on a dog's head!
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I… thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness!
~ Unknown
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
~ W.B. Yeats
Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
~ W.B. Yeats
Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
~ Bootsy Collins
It's like trying to herd a flock of geese," said Orik. "They're always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they'll bite your hand first chance they get.
~ Christopher Paolini
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful — faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.
~ Unknown
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
~ Philip Yancey
Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.
~ Philip Yancey
They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.
~ Philippa Gregory
I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this. I feel I have been a fool not to know, since I was raised in a kingdom at war and am the daughter of a man captured in battle, the widow of a knight, the wife of a merciless soldier. But I know now.
~ Philippa Gregory
Celia had ordered his favourite meal of wild duck cooked in limes, and I advised that we eat without him and save his portion for him to dine later. 'He
~ Philippa Gregory
Her body in firelight and candlelight was as beautiful as a wild animal.
~ Philippa Gregory
Unlike the beasts of the wild, the many cruel varieties of human monsters, when at last cornered, seldom fight with greater ferocity. Instead, they reveal the cowardice at the core of their brutality.
~ Dean Koontz
The noises on the roof stopped. The six waited. The night seemed to be crouched like a wild thing, studying its prey, timing its attack.
~ Dean Koontz
But Mithgar . . . Mithgar is yet wild, tempestuous, unkept, savage, turbulent, exciting. We come here to feel alive.
~ Unknown
He wanted to laugh; the vision of her pounding that wee boy in a fury of berserk rage, hair flying in the wind and a look of blood in her eye, was one he would treasure.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.
~ Diana Gabaldon
We passed the rest of the day in pleasant conversation, wandering among his reminiscences of the dear departed days when men were men, and the pernicious weed of civilization was less rampant upon the bonny wild face of the Highlands.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The wind stirred the drying leaves of wild grapevines with a papery rustle behind me, and in the distance a murder of crows passed, squabbling in shrill cries.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It was a great temptation. He felt the pull of the dark wild forest, above all, the lure of freedom. If he could but walk away into the greenwood, and stay there Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But he shook his head.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I was pretty wild when they drafted me. I was more of a flop-around-stop-it-any-way-you-can kind of goaltender.
~ Carey Price