Dove Quotes

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.

Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

I stopped playing video games, I stopped playing other sports, and I just dove head first into wrestling and it's been my passion ever since I discovered it.

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

The dove is my emblem.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.

I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.

Coo...coo... here comes the dove from above!

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. Its great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered

The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault

I think in places like Pennsylvania, there's folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.

There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?" "Nope!" "Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.

Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.