Top 100 Chariot Quotes
#1. If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.
Jon Favreau
#2. Ella, just stay here. Stay safe."
"Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson."
"What?" Percy said. "Oh ... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary - "
"ROOOF."
"How do you feel about pulling a chariot?
Rick Riordan
#3. Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.
Margot Datz
#4. Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
Baal Shem Tov
#5. The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
Charles Spurgeon
#6. The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#7. If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.
Nas
#8. To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#9. Horns honked in our wake, and people stomped on their brakes at the sight of a black Mustang being pursued by an airborne chariot.
Kevin Hearne
#10. The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.
Watchman Nee
#11. Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying-chariot through the fields of air.
Erasmus Darwin
#12. Jesus H. Christ on a chariot-driven crutch.
Stephen King
#13. Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.
Wilfred Owen
#14. Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
Edward Young
#15. I cleared my throat and looked up at him. "I'll just get dressed and meet you in the hall."
He nodded. "I'll have the nurse ready your chariot."
"My chariot?"
He shrugged sheepishly. "I thought that sounded better than wheelchair."
I grinned. "Totally better.
Cambria Hebert
#16. Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness, how unswerving his immutability, how infinite his power, how limitless his knowledge!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. The Mission is to do one's passion work, which is the chariot you ride in the BECOMING part of existence.
Bill Harvey
#18. I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
Harold Brodkey
#19. The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.
Ashwin Sanghi
#20. I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.
Ingmar Bergman
#21. You are but a mortal," Roque whispers in my ear, riding his horse alongside the chariot, as per tradition.
"And a whorefart," Servo calls from the other side.
"Yes," Roque agrees solemnly. "That too.
Pierce Brown
#22. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Andrew Marvell
#23. Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer.
Albert Pike
#25. Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence.
Thomas Watson
#26. Thor's mighty chariot rides across the sky, and lightning is caused by hurling his great hammer, Mjolnir.
Rick Riordan
#27. As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
Kit Williams
#28. It had been a boy's trick, Jerott remembered. Standing bareback on your father's horses; somersaulting, chariot-riding. Francis, buried in books, had never publicly attempted it. What private practice, Jerott wondered fleetingly, had gone into that?
Dorothy Dunnett
#29. The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.
Louis Kronenberger
#30. Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi.
Leo: Rainbows, ponies ...
Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.
Rick Riordan
#31. Tyson," I said "We're turning around!"
Going the wrong way?" he asked.
Always," I grumbled, but I steered the chariot towards the stands.
Rick Riordan
#32. It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
Francis Bacon
#33. Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates
Gautama Buddha
#34. In fact, the name 'rook' derives from ruhk, the Persian word for chariot. Pawns were footsoldiers, bishops were elephants, knights were mounted cavalry, and speeding along at the edges of the board were the swift and deadly chariots.
Matthew Reilly
#37. Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen ... God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.
Charles Spurgeon
#38. It was hard not to envy her. A phantom toll-booth, or a chariot of fire, probably. Drawn by thestrals.
Lev Grossman
#39. Veni, vidi, vici. That was easy for Julius Caesar to say; he crossed Italy in a chariot, not on a stupid bike." - Vivia
Leah Marie Brown
#40. As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike's chariot.
Rick Riordan
#41. Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Adela Florence Nicolson
#42. You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
David Lloyd
#43. And the souls in Plato riding up to heaven in a two-horse chariot would go in a Ford car now,' she
D.H. Lawrence
#44. Can you imagine someone handing Peter a microphone on Sunday morning and whispering, "Okay, now, you've got twenty minutes. We have to get the people out of here promptly because the chariot races start at one o'clock"?
Jim Cymbala
#46. A man desires to win a virgin heart, and is happy to know, - or at least to believe, -that he has won it. With a woman every former rival is an added victim to the wheels of the triumphant chariot in which she is sitting.
Anthony Trollope
#47. Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right.
L.Z.Marie
#48. I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. Seemed it that the chariot's way Lay through the midst of an immense concave Radiant with million constellations, tinged With shades of infinite color, And semicircled with a belt Flashing incessant meteors.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#50. It's bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time ... while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.
Ketch Secor
#51. 222. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
Max F. Muller
#52. Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#53. We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
John Vanbrugh
#54. We need our goats!" I yelled.
I waded through the crowd until I reached our chariot. I grabbed Otis's face and pressed my forehead against his.
"Testing," I whispered. "Is this goat on? Thor, can you hear me?"
"You have beautiful eyes," Otis told me.
Rick Riordan
#55. Thus weary of the world, away she hies,
And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid
Their mistress mounted through the empty skies
In her light chariot quickly is convey'd;
Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen
Means to immure herself and not be seen.
William Shakespeare
#56. In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.
Thomas Paine
#57. In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies.
Porphyry
#58. The chariot lurched and bumped. It had no seat belts and the back was wide open, so Piper wondered if Jason would catch her again if she fell.
Rick Riordan
#59. One day his mom, Rhea, came to visit on her chariot pulled by lions.
'Zeus,' she said, 'you need a summer job.
Rick Riordan
#60. We have a week, Miss Forsythe. Time's winged chariot and all that.
Anna Campbell
#61. The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.
Ingmar Bergman
#62. As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.
Annie Besant
#63. That's a voice that arrives on a chariot drawn by dragons
Rainbow Rowell
#64. I was an idle king and my chariot dawdled; I waited for the sea but it never came.
Albert Camus
#66. I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
Kit Williams
#67. I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
#68. The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!
Aesop
#69. Swing low, sweet chariot, comin'for t'carry me home ... ' was the tune I hummed as I made the beds, and waited for the news to come that our grandfather was on his way to heaven if his gold counted, and to hell if the Devil couldn't be bribed.
V.C. Andrews
#70. Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.
George Canning
#71. The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Kit Williams
#72. Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.
Huangbo Xiyun
#73. I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.
Jude Morgan
#74. The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror ... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage ... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.
Ingmar Bergman
#75. At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing-room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot. At dinner, he was envied
Charles Dickens
#76. When the Eternal bows the skies
To visit earthly things,
With scorn divine he turns his eyes
From towers of haughty kings.
He bids his awful chariot roll
Far downward from the skies,
To visit every humble soul,
With pleasure in his eyes.
Isaac Watts
#78. He stood in rain and the storm, watching a demon with his face standing and laughing at him on a chariot run by drunk horses. The storm threw dust into his eyes, while the demon unleashed the horses one after the other at him.
Akshay Vasu
#79. No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman
#80. I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.
Kit Williams
#81. POMPEII Note the ruts in roadway worn by chariot wheels.
H.G.Wells
#82. His stomach tried to propel itself out of his throat. His mouth hinged open all by itself - the better to upchuck you with, my dear - and shot out five gods, a very slimy rock, quite a lot of nectar, some biscuits, and a chariot license plate. (No, I don't know how all that got in there.)
Rick Riordan
#83. Look at the body as a royal chariot to which the ignorant cling, while the wise let go.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#84. I was used to driving my sun chariot across the sky, where every lane was the fast lane. I was not used to the Long Island Expressway. Believe me, even at midday in the middle of January, there is nothing express about your expressways.
Rick Riordan
#85. They see through me. I am the
chariot driver that takes them to their death.
Erik Sabiston
#86. In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.
Kit Williams
#87. By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
light chariot, and establish love.
[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]
Ovid
#88. The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
Kit Williams
#89. The tyrant should take heed to what he doth,
Since every victim-carrion turns to use,
And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth,
Against each piled injustice.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#91. This chariot is built out of human dreams about the sun, kid. It's as old as Western Civilization. Every day, it drives across the sky from east to west, lighting up all those puny little mortal lives. The chariot is a manifestation of the sun's power, the way mortals perceive it.
Rick Riordan
#92. He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators. His Ambassador is his chariot, his klaxon his sword. Weaving into the oncoming traffic, playing 'chicken' with the other taxis, Balvinder Singh is a Raja of the Road.
William Dalrymple
#93. The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
Bayard Taylor
#94. The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. The master of the household, the King, the Self of man, is sitting in this chariot.
Swami Vivekananda
#95. Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
William Blake
#96. Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#97. Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Thomas Brooks
#98. You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right.
Santosh Kalwar
#100. ... the door banged wide open, and the most striking man I had ever seen stood in the frame, the black winds whipping around him like a chariot of storm clouds.
Heather Heffner