Alights Quotes

#1. For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.

William Somervile

#2. How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

Jules Renard

#3. Hope is like a butterfly that alights gently in your heart.

Chrissie Anthony

#4. Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

Anna Lee

#5. The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

#6. Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

George Herbert

#7. The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Lord Byron

#8. Happiness is a butterfly that often eludes your grasp, then suddenly alights on your shoulder, sits for a spell and moves on.

Peggy Toney Horton

#9. But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch!

Erica Jong

#10. Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Plutarch

#11. Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Aesop

#12. I'm short, not blind," Tyrion said.

George R R Martin

#13. There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.

Michael Owen

#14. He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

George R R Martin

#15. Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Samuel Beckett

#16. The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

David P. Thelen