Top 100 Ark Quotes
#1. We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#2. I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.
Joan Van Ark
#3. Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
William Cowper
#4. Be like Noah's dove. She made use of her wings to fly, but trust in the ark for safety.
Thomas Watson
#5. If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
Ted Shackelford
#6. Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
Don Marquis
#7. More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
Ian Wace
#8. So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
Joan Van Ark
#9. No! Not her! It can't be! That bitch came over on the Ark!
Stephen King
#10. It took us 2,000 years to find Noah's ark. Do we ever find Flight 370?
Bill Hemmer
#11. I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones.
Kyle MacLachlan
#12. I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.
Steven Spielberg
#13. If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy.
Neal Stephenson
#14. Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?
Paul Washer
#16. David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.
Joan Van Ark
#17. Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic
Peyton Manning
#18. Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.
Paul Washer
#19. I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
Joan Van Ark
#20. The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
Shane Claiborne
#22. I have been ranting and raving about this ever since the idea of the Cloud Ark was announced. So far all I get in return, from the powers that be, are vague answers and hand-wavy happy talk.
Neal Stephenson
#23. What's so beautiful about girls?" I would implore.
And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn't possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; "You'll understand someday, James.
Jake Vander Ark
#24. It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.
Mark Twain
#25. The Age of the Stars had come to an end. Once in a billion years, a feeble supernova illuminated the vestiges of its home; brown dwarfs, neutron stars, blackholes ... lifeless echoes of their former majesty.
Jake Vander Ark
#26. Hannah strived for physical catharsis, but she was trapped in an unfamiliar mind without its biological counterparts; gasping without lungs, crying without tears, forgiving without a heart.
Jake Vander Ark
#27. My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from Harrison, Ark., and somehow I'm an atheist now living in L.A. I am a Razorback living in the Razorback diaspora.
Matt Besser
#28. Anytime you're afraid to try something new ... just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.
David Drake
#29. The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
Barbara Bush
#30. The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Herbert Hoover
#31. While the Ark Encounter will be able to accommodate 16,000 guests per day, our consultant's research has shown that we could possibly expect more than that during the first few weeks of opening, especially during the summer time frame.
Ken Ham
#32. This world is like Noah's Ark.
In which few men but many beasts embark.
Samuel Butler
#33. Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
Dwight L. Moody
#34. Most suicidal teens are different; they're tempted to kill themselves. with me, i know i need to die; i should be killed for the things i've done. but i keep feeling this nudge, this TEMPTATION TO LIVE. and everyday i pray to god that i never lose that temptation.
Jake Vander Ark
#35. Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals
Will Rogers
#36. Because the golden egg gleamed
in my basket once, though my childhood
became an immense sheet of darkening water
I was Noah, and I was his ark,
and there were two of every animal inside me
Mark Doty
#37. When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.
Joan Van Ark
#39. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.
Jake Vander Ark
#40. Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
Sloane Crosley
#42. ... girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those "in the know" assured me that they were beautiful.
Jake Vander Ark
#43. And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.
John Dryden
#44. An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.
Felix Riesenberg
#45. Life operates exactly like the Star Wars prequels. It's boring, bloated, painful when it shouldn't be, and lacks a cohesive storyline. And ultimately, it only exists to boost the ego of its creator.
Jake Vander Ark
#46. Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
Joseph Kosinski
#47. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
Neil Marshall
#48. My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#49. Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
Rajneesh
#50. There'll be a sky full of babies and their shit, suspended overhead. You do not want to get caught in that rain when it falls.
Stephen Baxter
#51. I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
Zach Braff
#52. Noah's ark is on the tombstone of drowning desire and I am walking furiously on water.
Malak El Halabi
#53. Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Joan Van Ark
#54. Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. ("Dayspring Mishandled")
Rudyard Kipling
#55. If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining
Max Brooks
#56. If EVACC is a sort of ark, Griffith becomes its Noah, though one on extended duty, since already he's been at things a good deal longer than forty days.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#57. I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
Matthew Reilly
#58. One little girl.
Two soulmates.
And three mended hearts.
I'm a believer now. I can see it with my own eyes.
Everything should come in threes.
J.A. Huss
#59. Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest.
Isaac Ambrose
#60. 7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
Anonymous
#61. Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?
Martin Luther
#62. I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
Rumi
#63. I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.
Joan Van Ark
#64. It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
Charles Spurgeon
#65. Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak through a prolong period of flood. We must work our talents out and work them out skillfully and then our rainbow of excellence will show.
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing.
David Leslie Johnson
#67. To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#68. I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.
Joan Van Ark
#69. It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.
Michael Shermer
#70. The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.
Thomas Paine
#71. I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass
#72. Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.
Jake Vander Ark
#73. There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
Thomas Aquinas
#75. Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.
Thomas Hardy
#76. There I find an Ark torn asunder and a Vicegerent over Yonder
Saqib Abraham
#77. Where I'm at is a big Episcopal church in downtown Newark, New Jersey, sitting in the dark while I try to rescue the doomed bits and pieces of life, in the hope that a mere story can become Noah's Ark and deliver all the living things of the past to a bright and glorious immortality?
Chuck Palahniuk
#79. What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?
Terry Pratchett
#80. My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.
John Boyega
#81. Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built he Titanic.
Elizabeth May
#82. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Howard Ruff
#83. A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'
David Mumford
#84. I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero.
Joey Lawrence
#85. Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation.
Robert Kiyosaki
#87. The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
Thomas Carlyle
#88. As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.
John Dryden
#89. The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.
Michael Gove
#90. You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.
Joan Van Ark
#91. How do you tell one You've spoken with God? / Would you believe someone / Who said that they saw / Plans for a boat / To hold all the beasts / And you and your kids From a flood to retreat?
Brian M. Boyce
#92. Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann
#93. When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.
Joan Van Ark
#94. The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
Judith Hayes
#95. David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
Geraldine Brooks
#96. His stubble was cut smooth. he smelled of aftershave, dry deodorant and sex-tarnished bedsheets. those eyes
grey, strong, inlaid beneath a firm brow that displayed such hate and SUCH love
they seduced her every time ... but not tonight.
Jake Vander Ark
#97. Wherefore I dare not, I, put forth my hand To hold the Ark, although it seem to shake Through th' old sinnes and new doctrines of our land. Onely, since God doth often vessels make Of lowly matter for high uses meet, I throw me at his feet. - George Herbert1
Terryl L. Givens
#98. I got killed against Morimoto. I brought out white plates with food; I thought that was really nice. He brings out sculptures of ice, Noah's ark made of balsa wood that he carved at his restaurant downstairs, smoking trees ... When I saw that, I looked at my sous chef and I'm like, we're toast.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#99. You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated along full of life, but not participating in life ... These people no longer made progress.
Anne Spollen
#100. William looked up ... through his tears ... past the catwalk and lights ... past the sky ... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?
Jake Vander Ark
