Top 100 Gate Quotes
#1. I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.
M.C. Escher
#2. Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
Rumi
#3. Once a woman put her hand in a gate and it ate her fingers. A five-legged spider with red eyes crawled out. That woman put in three fingers from her other hand, so that the spider might be complete. Do you have that integrity of purpose, sister?
Yoon Ha Lee
#4. The Beast is an animal You'd better lock the Gate Or when it's dark, It comes for you Then it will be too late The
Peternelle Van Arsdale
#6. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate to Eden puts down his fiery sword. I've been to busy to get to Eden. What kind of man is too busy to make God smile?
Alice Randall
#7. In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
Alexander Smith
#8. I have a one-legged friend and I asked her what they said to John at the gate. She said she reckoned they said, "The lame shall enter first." This may be because the lame will be able to knock everybody else aside with their crutches.
Flannery O'Connor
#9. Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
William Shakespeare
#10. Stars pebbled the heavens and I vowed to never take the beauty for granted once we were back home, guarding the gate like it should be.
Brenda Pandos
#11. Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
Helen Keller
#12. As well as depressing, but each day I feel like I'm making a small difference. We walked a kid out of prison last week. His parents were waiting by the gate, and everyone was in tears, including me. FYI - one
John Grisham
#13. Ranger's gonna hate this," Tank said. "Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel.
Janet Evanovich
#14. 13"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy [1] that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Anonymous
#15. She had seen those eyes dark with brooding anger and cold as ice, she'd seen his gaze veiled like a spiderweb and shattering like a gate under pressure. But she'd never seen them as they were now. Full of wondering joy and disbelief, and an almost frightened awe.
L.J.Smith
#16. The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.
Andrew Motion
#17. There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
Alice Hoffman
#18. Come beloved, and sit at the gate of Nothingness, God will bring you bread without the taste of bread, Sweetness without the honey or the bee, And when the future and past are dissolved There will only be you, lying senseless like a lute On the breast of God. - Rumi
Ian Gawler
#19. Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!
Glen Cook
#20. Later, it was said the man came from the north, from Ropers Gate.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#21. O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
Wendell Berry
#22. I've broken my wrist, dislocated toes and shoulders, gotten stitches, you name it. However, the worst was a severely bruised femur. I got body checked into an open gate while playing hockey. The doctor couldn't believe I didn't shatter my femur.
Robbie Amell
#23. In November, at winter's gate, the stars are brittle. The sun is a sometime friend. And the world has tucked her children in, with a kiss on their heads, till spring.
Cynthia Rylant
#24. Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
#25. For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.
Doreen Valiente
#26. There's a gate?" I ask, confused. "Why do we always climb the fence?"
He shoots me a sly grin. "You were in a dress the two times we've been here. Where's the fun in walking through a gate?
Colleen Hoover
#27. Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.
Roopleen
#28. Dad leapt over the garden wall instead of going through the gate. Sadly he didn't do himself a severe injury, and so he lives to embarrass me to death another day.
Louise Rennison
#30. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
Rabindranath Tagore
#31. Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
Billy Collins
#33. Then she lowered her arm and the gate closed behind her. That arm suddenly falling and the metallic clank of the gate shutting made me understand that from one moment to another one can lose heart.
Patrick Modiano
#34. he knew from studying maps in preparation: the broad avenues leading to the Brandenburg Gate. He had played Bach's Brandenburg Concertos records many times, intricate magic alive in the air. The gate that led to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel.
Gregory Benford
#35. I wasn't scared, but I had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when you die.
Malala Yousafzai
#36. I know we were conjugating the verb love like two maniacs trying to fuck through an iron gate.
Henry Miller
#37. Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
Rumi
#38. I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain ...
Rutger Hauer
#39. The Murder Burger is served right here.
You need not wait at the gate of Heaven for unleavened death.
You can be a goner on this very corner.
Mayonnaise, onions, dominance of flesh.
If you wish to eat it you must feed it.
Yall come back soon.
You bet.
Stan Rice
#40. Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
Laurence Sterne
#41. A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
Nostradamus
#42. I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.
Drew Brees
#43. I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.
Jeremy Piven
#44. My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.
Wendy Harmer
#45. There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform our midnight frolics as the inmates burn the midnight oil.
Whipplesnaith
#46. There was a large notice in black and red hung on the gate, stating that on June the Twenty-second Messrs Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes would sell by auction the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins Esquire, of Bag-End, Underhill, Hobbiton.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. Where else is the gate of life if not in the eyes of your soul?
Sorin Cerin
#48. But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.
Mary Jo Putney
#49. A crafty nightrunner died of late,
And found himself at Bilairy's Gate.
He stood outside and refused to knock
Because he meant to pick the lock.
Lynn Flewelling
#50. I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get out of here and enjoy your eternity." He glanced calculatingly at the gate once again, and I raised my hand in warning. "I can drain faster than you can run.
Kiersten White
#51. Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag Hammarskjold
#52. Women are like lionesses at the gate of the home. Whatever happens in that home and family happens because she cares about it and it matters to her. She guards that gate, and things matter to that family if they matter to her.
Julie B. Beck
#53. Only a small few can hold the gate open when profound love enters. A blessed and courageous few.
Jeff Brown
#54. The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.
Kid Nichols
#55. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Archibald Alexander
#56. When the rose's flash to the sunset
Reels to the wrack and the twist,
And the rose is a red bygone,
When the face I love is going
And the gate to the end shall clang,
And it's no use to beckon or say, "So long"
Maybe I'll tell you then
some other time.
Carl Sandburg
#57. Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.
Qiu Miaojin
#58. Younger kids should realize that if dancing is what you wanna do, it's not always gonna be the easiest thing; you're not always going to end up dancing for Justin Timberlake right out the gate.
Ryan Guzman
#59. This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
Rabindranath Tagore
#60. The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
Heinrich Heine
#61. A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
Louise Erdrich
#62. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.1
Andrew Murray
#63. have to open the gate to our heart. Opening the heart unlocks the heart of the universe, and we see what is always before us.
Jeff Brown
#64. Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.
Henry Van Dyke
#65. You've just got to get in the starting gate and throw down whatever you've got.
Ted Ligety
#66. Sir, I'm afraid that the quality of this airline is partly measured by on-time departures. And unfortunately, on-time departures are measured by when we left the gate, not by wheels-up.
Marcus Buckingham
#67. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.
Laozi
#68. Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
Wilfred Owen
#69. And 5:25 when the screaming started outside the main gate.
William Goldman
#70. No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin
#71. You're about to enter the future gate.
Come in now, or later will be too late.
Toba Beta
#72. They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.
Joyce Kilmer
#73. Like mercy from heaven's gate, there's a freedom in your arms that carries me through. I need you.
LeAnn Rimes
#74. Becoming a child is living the Beatitudes and so finding the narrow gate into the Kingdom.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#75. Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#76. And somehow I had always resisted driving very slowly back and forth in front of his house. Willpower? No. I figured his front gate was equipped with security cameras and I would just be embarrassing myself. And this street was definitely not on the bus line.
Jennifer Echols
#77. You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.
Pam Brown
#78. Whoever lived in that apartment had a security gate, blinds that were closed and curtains drawn.
It's probably darker in there than it is in Hollister.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#79. San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here ... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.
Eddie Izzard
#80. Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven
the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#81. This was it; the Mystery of The Unseen, the Gate of Sorrow, that leads to the Grace of the Redeemer. I pressed my lips together, and my hands gripped the windowsill. I saw the hand of Fatima, and all the visible world sank away from me.
Kurban Said
#82. Yet a mysterious gate lay open within her shadow; and all my flesh was aware of black pathways and hovels and the silence one observes when the dead are near.
Joe Bousquet
#84. The Great Way has no gate, there are thousands of paths to it. If you pass through the barrier, you walk the universe alone. Wu-men - Chan Buddhist
Richard Hooper
#85. I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it.
David Foster Wallace
#86. When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.
Neil Gaiman
#87. People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Rufus Sewell
#88. Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.
Joan Bauer
#89. I will go where I will go
And I will jettison all dead weight
And I will use these words for kindling
And I will sleep by the garden gate.
John Darnielle
#90. Enter ye in at the astrait gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel therein, until the night cometh, wherein no man can work.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#91. By his own admission, he would rather run ten miles, leap a five-bar gate and climb a big hill than engage in any athletic activity.
Terry Pratchett
#92. We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#93. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.
Lao-Tzu
#95. I can see that everyone else is doing exactly what they wanted with the rest of their lives. They're all at the gate, pawing the dirt and ready to run, and I've already got a lame leg and am this close to being taken around back of the stable to be put out of my misery.
Sarah Dessen
#96. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.
Diana Gabaldon
#97. I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.
Joss Whedon
#99. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of. I had got hold of the
Robert Penn Warren
#100. The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
Celine Dion
