Top 100 Quotes About Crescent
#1. Love that Ritz!" he said. "A lot of folks swear by the Crescent Court, but it has nothing on the Ritz. Such a classic. And do you know that they have their own nightly guacamologist? How divine is that?
Emily Giffin
#2. Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.
Terry Tempest Williams
#3. I studied a crescent moon hung crooked in a plum purple sky and thought about what it would be like to truly be seen.
Laura Whitcomb
#4. Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved ...
how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth ...
echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal chords ...
Brandi L. Bates
#5. Outside, the crescent moon was high in the sky, shining in its sliver glory.
Melissa De La Cruz
#6. Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings ... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.
Rumi
#7. She pushed Adam firmly back, once and for all, and turned to face the demon, the crescent moon of the scythe's blade circling over her head as a vane signals a change in the weather.
The wind was finally blowing her way.
Erin Kellison
#8. I wish I knew how one is supposed to live. I wish somebody had taught me. Why do people we take for authorities when we are children let us down in this respect? Who is to tell us which is right? The cross, the crescent, the hammer and sickle, the smiling Buddha? do as you would be done by.
Tessa De Loo
#9. I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream.
Piper Payne
#10. The moon is made round by the right hand of God.
The moon is made crescent by His left.
But it is God's heart that makes my love for you forever.
Deborah Rodriguez
#11. Real writers never show their teeth. Charlatans, in contrast, flash that sinister crescent when they smile. Check it out. Find photos of all the writers you respect, and you'll see that their teeth remain a permanently occult mystery.
Valeria Luiselli
#12. It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
Frank Black
#13. When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it
delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.
It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.
And sometimes it is enough.
Vera Nazarian
#14. Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night ...
Charlotte Turner Smith
#15. I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.
Sylvia Plath
#16. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically.
Stephen Kinzer
#17. I'm clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I'm hurting now, he'll hurt ten times worse. That's the only thing that keeps me going.
Jenny Han
#18. Civilization began in the Fertile Crescent, not because it was an Edenic place overflowing with natural resources, but because it was so hostile to settlement that a village of any size needed careful management to survive.
Susan Wise Bauer
#19. Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began.
Katherine Mansfield
#20. The arms of Tarth were quartered rose and azure, and bore a yellow sun and crescent moon.
George R R Martin
#21. They went through Crescent City, a tired-looking town, where you could get a beer for a dollar and maybe get a fractured skull for nothing.
Richard Preston
#23. The smile that flickers on a baby's lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.
Rabindranath Tagore
#24. The night was nippy and a few stars were out, dimmed by the grin of a crescent moon.
E.E. Giorgi
#25. Sun drifts, moon breaches, cool air whispers into the night. Tears fall, arms comfort, birds in the distance take flight. Waning crescent, smother my cries, take me up to the inky skies." She
Melissa Foster
#26. Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.
Robert Todd Carroll
#27. The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
Yann Martel
#28. Venice took on the feeling of a city paved with black glass, the odd lantern, torch, or candle reflecting in the canals like distant windows into hell, the crescent moon throwing silver scythes across the water where it could find its way between buildings.
Christopher Moore
#29. But in this crowd, my blond ponytail stood out like a crescent moon in a midnight sky.
Kristin Bartley Lenz
#30. Winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird ...
John Geddes
#31. This sentence pinned itself to my memory like moon pinned to the night sky - sometimes whole in sight, sometimes crescent, sometimes behind the clouds, but assuredly there, always there.
Ashfaq Saraf
#32. In the crook of the crescent moon sits the Holy Lady, with strong muscles and a merciful heart. She kicks her her splendid legs like the moon is her swing and the sky, her front porch. She waves down at Sidda like she has just spotted an old buddy.
Rebecca Wells
#33. The river breeze washed over him. He saw the magnificent views of the city and the bridge connecting Algiers Point to New Orleans. He marveled at the crescent shape of New Orleans as the ferry traveled nearly parallel to the curve in the Mississippi River.
Hunter Murphy
#34. The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In
Jonathan Lethem
#35. One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed in the Fertile Crescent before spreading, via Crete, Greece, Egypt and Italy to the forests of Europe
Tom Turner
#36. You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire."
"And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.
Sarah Beth Durst
#37. But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky
Robert Hunter
#38. At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs with sensuality and moral courage, as if it didn't take place in a society that denies the tick of the heart.
Hanan Al-Shaykh
#39. Sweet crescent moon, up in the sky. You sing your song sweetly sunshine passes by. ...
Marissa Meyer
#40. The cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name.
Orson Scott Card
#41. I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
Wally Lamb
#42. Each that we lose takes part of us;
A crescent still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
Is summoned by the tides.
Emily Dickinson
#43. The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
George R R Martin
#44. He was looking up at the sky, where a pale crescent of moon darted in between thick sweeps of cloud and fog. Flakes of white snow had fallen and mixed with his black hair. His cheeks and lips were flushed with the cold. He looked more handsome than she had ever remembered him.
Cassandra Clare
#45. It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.
Anusha Atukorala
#46. Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
Robert Hunter
#47. Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.
G. Harry Stine
#48. Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
#49. To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.
Nostradamus
#50. seen Nineveh repent a century earlier (see the book of Jonah), but the city had fallen back into wickedness. Assyria, the world power controlling the Fertile Crescent, seemed unstoppable. Its ruthless and savage warriors had already conquered Israel, the northern kingdom,
Anonymous
#51. As soon as he had departed she directed her attention to the others.
"I need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench.
G.S. Jennsen
#52. I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
Mike Scott
#53. Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.
Mark Twain
#54. The crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be?
Hal Duncan
#55. Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!'
("The Man In Crescent Terrace")
Seabury Quinn
#56. September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.
Catherynne M Valente
#57. We've spent a lot of time on ergonomics. That was something we found to be really important as we iterated on the headset, from developer kits to Crescent Bay to the Rift.
Brendan Iribe
#58. The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun.
Joan Miro
#59. Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,
Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.
John Darnielle
#60. You told me the Utes were gonna kill you for it. And how would the Cotterell's know anything bout it? And come looking for you?" "Because Runs-With-Scissors was drunk and told everyone at the Crescent Junction tavern, that's why.
David J. West
#61. The limo pulled up to two crescent-shaped gold-plated buildings standing side by side, stretching high into the sky. The farther building said The Diamond Hotel, and the closer one The Diamond Residences.
Michelle Madow
#62. 'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.
Luanne Rice
#63. I don't understand this thing about [Bashar] Assad. He has to go. Assad is aligned with Iran and Russia. The one thing we want to prevent is we want to prevent Iran being able to extend a Shia crescent all across the Middle East. Assad has got to go.
John Kasich
#64. Sweet Crescent Moon ... ," he whispered, his lips barely able to form the words. He began to shiver. "Up in the sky ... " He hummed a few bars of a song, a lullaby that seemed barely familiar. "You sing your song ... so sweetly ... after sunshine passes ...
Marissa Meyer
#65. Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high ... ' Long live Scanderbeg.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#66. Aroma of fresh bread led me to a bakery where a deformed woman with no nose sold me a dozen crescent-moon pastries. Only wanted one, but thought she had enough problems.
David Mitchell
#67. Donna was an enigma wrapped in bacon wrapped in a crescent roll.
Tina Fey
#68. Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.
Lucy Larcom
#69. After she was born, I wanted to run away, to bring her to Earth, but my wife was even more devoted to Her Majesty than I had been. She wanted nothing to do with the child. And so my little Crescent Moon was taken away, like all the others.
Marissa Meyer
#70. And before he knew what he was doing, he reached out and with a thumb brushed away one teardrop glistening in that mauve crescent beneath her eyes.
And then he looked down at his thumb, and rubbed the tear out of existence, right into his skin.
Julie Anne Long
#71. Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#72. [it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter ...
Crescent Dragonwagon
#73. KIM: I wanted to make it on my own.
KURT: You will. The problem is, sometimes you just need one person to put you in touch with the other. It's how it all starts.
Sam Crescent
#74. He starts spanking me again. In between the spanks, he's talking to me. "I'm not interested in making love to a perfectly trained doll, Sara. I want a real, live woman in my dungeon and in my bed.
Tara Crescent
#75. Positive actions draw positive returns, and negative actions draw negative returns,
Karli Rush
#76. SPIKE: I'm a biker, babe. It's in my blood to get what I want.
Sam Crescent
#77. I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#78. .....if he's not man enough to stand up to your father, and take the crap he has to dish out, then he's not good enough to be with you.
Sam Crescent
#79. STAR: My dad always told me that life will keep on kicking you if you let it. You've got to keep moving, and you've got to not look back.
Sam Crescent
#80. You want something enough that you're going to hurt, then you stay, and keep it.
Sam Crescent
#81. If you want some advice, honey, stop pushing the boy away. Otherwise at the end of all of this, he's going to find a woman who really wants him and doesn't keep pretending she doesn't.
Sam Crescent
#84. I like him, sweetheart, and I'll still give him hell. It's my total right.
Sam Crescent
#85. KIM: It means something, and when I do it, I don't want to wake up in the morning, wishing I'd not done it.
Sam Crescent
#86. PATTY: Hannah, what happened to me was awful, and it happened a long time ago, but I try not to dwell on it. It's with me, is who I am, but I won't allow it to shape me.
Sam Crescent
#87. There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process, and hence, you have gas.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#88. SPIKE: I whistled at you.
STAR: I'm not a dog. Why would I respond to a whistle?
[He chuckled. He had been around too many club wh*res.]
Sam Crescent
#89. Life is about living, and I intend to live it to the fullest, don't you?
Sam Crescent
#90. It's a father's place to hate the son-in-law. It's our place to put them through h*ll just to make sure they know what they're doing.
Sam Crescent
#91. The difference between me and everyone else out there, is that when they wake up, their nightmares end.
Romilly Winter.
John Hennessy
#92. LOGAN: I think you spend too much time believing what other people see, rather than what you think.
Sam Crescent
#93. He (Logan) was public enemy number one, and he was okay with that.
It felt good to be himself.
Sam Crescent
#94. Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#95. LOGAN: ...Izzy could do whatever the hell she wanted. All she needed to do was not give a sh*t about fitting in.
Sam Crescent
#97. BLAKE: I've come to learn that people are going to hate you and like you, no matter what. I'd rather be around people I want to be around.
Sam Crescent
#98. I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#99. The key to greatness is knowing when to take the hand that has been offered.
Sam Crescent
#100. I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.
Crescent Dragonwagon
