Golden Son Quotes

#1. Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,
In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
And told the truant by his marks,-
Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. At university - when I was supposed to be studying biochemistry - I had tried to write a children's book about a boy and a wolf cub, and there was a paragraph in that which was from the wolf's point of view.

Michelle Paver

#3. Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

John Walters

#4. The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar - Who follows in his train? I

Rudyard Kipling

#5. People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

Howard Rheingold

#6. I am a child of hell, and I've spent too long in their heaven.

Pierce Brown

#7. Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

Natalie Zea

#9. And how could someone like her, someone with so much self-worth, bare herself and throw her heart at a man who gave so little in return?

Pierce Brown

#10. He felt like anything was possible around her, like his life meant more, like he meant more.

S.J. Kincaid

#11. Scarlet the poppies
Blue the corn-flowers,
Golden the wheat.
Gold for the Eternal:
Blue for Our Lady:
Red for the five
Wounds of her Son.

Adelaide Crapsey

#12. I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.

Suzy Bogguss

#13. To prosper, your superior must prosper.

Pierce Brown

#14. If you look at 'Golden Son,' it was just a focused, isolated battle for Mars.

Pierce Brown

#15. Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.

Siri Hustvedt

#16. Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.

Pierce Brown

#17. I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.

Sanford I. Weill

#18. Nothing is possible without love.

Carl Jung

#19. O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helpless agony before the oppressor?
O Lord, come down from Olympus,
shake your golden thyrsus
and stifle the murderer's insolent fury.

Euripides

#20. Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Juliet Marillier

#21. The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

Ellis Peters

#22. My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.

Alexandre Dumas

#23. It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats.

Pierce Brown

#24. In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked.

Pierce Brown

#25. Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

Jacob Grimm

#26. Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail

Kathleen Raine