Quotes About Gates

We marched. Gates opened and closed. We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was not in danger of death?

The lion on your old stone gatesIs not more cold to you than I.

There's a moment of silence, then the gates swing open. The last fifty yards up to the circular drive are dicey. The car finally commits seppuku halfway around the circle. Steam geysers from the radiator. Darker things leak from below.

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.

New York really does know how to welcome you through its gates - if they decide that's what they want to do.

Several NBA teams got their best gates every season when they scheduled a doubleheader and booked the Globetrotters and their stooges for the opening game.

And then, after publication of Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars

looked into Putin's eyes and, just as I expected, had seen a stone-cold killer.

the command and control "is ugly, but it works on the ground." Actually, it didn't. This problem would not fully be resolved until the summer of 2010, nearly nine years after the war started.

I was offended by his suspicion that any of us would ever write about such sensitive matters.

I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at the sight, but I refrained. I passed the gates with the revolver in my hand, but there was no human there, only a scurry in the dustbins.

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

I salute you as the Gates of Death

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

As for the gates of hell, is there any other institution in Christendom which compares with this for immovability, authority and impressiveness?

Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). – Revelation 21:25

The twelve gates were twelve pearls . . . and the street of the city was pure gold. – Revelation 21:21

Sticking with his habitual policy of creative procrastination, Rockefeller promised nothing and invited Gates for breakfast the next morning.

Yet Gates was groomed by Rockefeller, and if he was granted a large measure of freedom, it was partly because Rockefeller had trained him as his proxy.

Four rooms on the top floor were reserved for the Rockefeller family, but Senior never took advantage of this privilege, despite Gates's constant urging:

That spring, Gates had survived a serious illness, awakening his curiosity about American medicine.

Gates met with Harper and urged him to shed his outside activities.

In an early version of the letter, never sent, Gates was even more outspoken.