Caves Quotes

Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

Cracks make caves collapse.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

If you are after truth, leave your cave!

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.

His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

People have been sharing pictures of their food for as long as there's been caves.

When you see a picture of a woolly mammoth on a cave wall, that's weirdly similar to a person's lasagna that they thought looked delicious.

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.