Quotes of: Golden-age Keyword

We drove down Corydon avenue towards my mother's apartment. How are you doing, she asked me? Fine, fine, I said. I wanted to tell her that I felt I was dying from rage and that I felt guilty about everything and that when I was a kid I woke up every ...

All My Puny Sorrows

Sometimes we are written down in books. Or, someone tells a story in which our name figures. And so we live on, through someone else’s voice… These are the indelible marks others make of us, like the watermarks of high tides, names carved into ba...

The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club

Computer Operator: Gentlemen, I know how anxious you've all been during these last few days. But now I think I can safely say that your time and money have been well-spent. We're about to witness the greatest miracle of the machine age. Based on the ...

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.

Complete Works

The face of a golden retriever feels like home.

Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

Truthfulness is the golden thread that binds good lives, good relationships, and our very legacy.

The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

Beyond Sandy Ridge

We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Infinity + One

Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?

Jane and the Man of the Cloth

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.

Killosophy

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The Rosemary Tree

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

The Song of Achilles

...his eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks.

A Spell Is Cast

It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again.

The Magus

The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly golden opportunities do not arise to benefit oneself, but in order to benefit others.

Life on the Flipside

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

Let it Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

The Last Unicorn

Awesome. I'd terrified the Legatus of the Golden Legion just by showing him my sword. If I waved it around, he'd probably explode.

Magic Breaks

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There