Top 100 Quotes About Crowns
#1. All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Andrew Fletcher
#2. Empty hands held high
such a small sacrifice
if not joined with my life, i sing in vain tonight
may the words i say, and the things i do
make my lifesong sing to you
Let my lifesong sing to you ...
Casting Crowns
#3. There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Charles Spurgeon
#4. Are you deliberately trying to waste our time," Hal asked in an icy voice, "or are you just being petty?"
"A little of both," said Azrael.
Mirriam Neal
#5. Gather my leaves,
Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on my branches,
I will seek out your hide
s you sleep beneath the shade
Of my giving tree
Michelle Hodkin
#6. My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
Peter Tosh
#7. Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
John Ford
#8. And finally, there's the seventh doorway, the Doorway of Oneness, which corresponds to the crown center, located at the top of the head. This doorway has to do with feeling whole and connected to all of life, connected to spirit
Marci Shimoff
#9. Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
Alexander Pushkin
#10. Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
Gloria Estefan
#11. A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign power,
Like other baubles in the Tower:
Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,
And so continues till he dies.
Jonathan Swift
#14. Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.
Lorenz Oken
#17. You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.
Joe Greene
#18. Apparently being princess wasn't all about beautiful palaces, fantastic castles, shopping, archery lessons, wearing awesome crowns and kickass underwear and being married to a hot guy who named his ship after you. Apparently there were drawbacks
Kristen Ashley
#19. How anyone could endure three or four hours of chanting monks and ranting priests was beyond my understanding, just as it was beyond my understanding to know why bishops needed thrones. They would be demanding crowns next.
Bernard Cornwell
#20. Although my heart is torn, I will praise you in this storm.
Casting Crowns
#21. Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
Alexander Pope
#22. A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
Lloyd Alexander
#23. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen,
Leigh Bardugo
#24. I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake ...
William Butler Yeats
#25. Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Robert Herrick
#26. The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#27. Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.
William Shakespeare
#28. The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
William Shakespeare
#29. Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Christopher Morley
#30. What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?
Mary Slessor
#32. News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore," Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn't interfere with the flamethrower. "No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.
Rachel Caine
#33. When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Josemaria Escriva
#34. We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.
Frances Hardinge
#35. How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
Hafez
#36. We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him
Salman Rushdie
#37. A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#38. If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.
Bob Dylan
#39. The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville - the counsels being thrown into the bargain.
Alexandre Dumas
#40. IF you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that "the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord;" if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and see His throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. For where God intends to do any good, he first works in them a gracious disposition: after which he looks upon his own work as upon a lovely object, and so doth give them other blessings. God crowns grace with grace. By
Richard Sibbes
#42. To be wild as the waves;
enshrined
by the vastness -
our cosmic immemorial.
Unsettled as the forest.
An indomitable flicker
amidst worldviews,
of jaded crowns
and romantic ash.
Steven Storm
#43. A Princess of the Shield is courageous. She is compassionate. She is kind, and she is disciplined. Without these four core values, a girl may have all the crowns and castles she wants, but she will no more be a princess than she will a dragon.
M.A. Larson
#44. He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.
Paul Klee
#45. This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.
Thomas Watson
#46. The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.
Gavin Esler
#47. We are slumberous poppies,
Lords of Lethe downs,
Some awake and some asleep,
Sleeping in our crowns.
What perchance our dreams may know,
Let our serious may know.
Leigh Hunt
#48. When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
Ben E. King
#50. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.
Thomas A Kempis
#51. [Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#52. The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
William Blake
#53. The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
Abraham Lincoln
#54. All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
William Shakespeare
#55. Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down with the power of my art, without delaying the matter further.
Jeet Aulakh
#56. AB'ACOT, noun The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns.
Noah Webster
#58. Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all the circumstance in our lives, we shall find that He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.
Carrie Judd Montgomery
#59. I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles.
Holly Golightly
#60. But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!
William Cowper
#61. From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.
Eugene V. Debs
#62. Not because of who I am, but because of what You've done. Not because of what I've done, but because of who You are.
Casting Crowns
#63. I can't pray or weigh my words right; doomsday
is here my friend, but you're immune. We suffer
for you. I'm weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;
a souvenir so you'll never forget your friends.
Jalina Mhyana
#64. The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
Francis Quarles
#65. The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
Plutarch
#66. Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.
Elizabeth I
#67. Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards
a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.
Isaac Bonewits
#68. There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.
Charles James Fox
#69. Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.
Justin Bieber
#70. When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
Dave Parker
#71. If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.
Francis Quarles
#72. You cannot be Christ's servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.
Charles Spurgeon
#73. Our dearest hopes in pangs are born,
The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.
Gerald Massey
#74. The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.
Sadao Araki
#75. Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.
Timothy Keller
#76. Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.
KRS-One
#77. When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#78. When that day of jubilee finally arrives, all of us will be there with you, walking, heads held high, crowns a-glitter, because we do have a right to be here.
Edwidge Danticat
#79. Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
Vitruvius
#80. When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Daniel Defoe
#81. Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet,
Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#82. Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
Charles Spurgeon
#84. Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
Mason Cooley
#85. Were all on a golden journey-every one of us. A journey inspired by golden dreams, and at the end awaits a golden crown of righteousness ... please remember that every step is to be cherished. Every single one ...
Chris Heimerdinger
#86. Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief
The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.
Dan Simmons
#87. Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
Nas
#88. There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.
Geerhardus Vos
#89. Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.
John Gay
#90. An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
Oliver Goldsmith
#91. T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
Joseph Addison
#92. Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father.
R.A. Salvatore
#93. Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them.
William E. Gladstone
#94. The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
Emanuel Lasker
#95. Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
Mason Cooley
#96. What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.
George Eliot
#97. Our struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown. Although it often seems that way.
Edward Kennedy
#98. Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
Christopher Paolini
