Top 100 Quotes About Ravens
#1. I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
Jamie Wyeth
#2. Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
Juvenal
#3. The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.
John M. Marzluff
#4. When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.
Louise Erdrich
#5. Always there have been six ravens at the Tower. If the ravens fly away, the kingdom will fall.
John Owen Theobald
#7. Well; I would rather die yonder than in a street, or on a frequented road, ' I reflected. 'And far better that crows and ravens -if any ravens there be in these regions- should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a work-house coffin, and moulder in a pauper's grave.
Charlotte Bronte
#8. Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.
Marshall Faulk
#9. The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords.
Robert Jordan
#11. For a breathtaking moment;
I spoke the language of the fleeing leaves
When the sky is shrouded in darkness
Of incoming Ravens in black plumage.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#12. Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn't mean you should actually do it. And just because two giant ravens point you in the direction of a path doesn't mean you should take it. But it was the only path she had.
Anne Ursu
#13. Love can be angry ... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
Saint Augustine
#14. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison
#15. Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.
Margaret Atwood
#16. Lucy was kinda like the Ravens - rough-looking on the outside but full of awesome.
Laura Kaye
#17. Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory.
Diane Setterfield
#18. Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.
Hannah Kent
#19. Honestly, all crows are not ravens
Munia Khan
#20. Atticus, I think we're being stalked by the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock. First it was a Vulture adn now two giant ravens are coming our way. Oberon
Kevin Hearne
#21. His hands were cold as ice, but he saved us from the dead men, him and his ravens, and he brought us here on his elk." "His elk?" said Bran, wonderstruck. "His elk?" said Meera, startled. "His ravens?" said Jojen. "Hodor?" said Hodor.
Anonymous
#22. He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise.
Hines Ward
#23. Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.
P.C. Cast
#24. Seems to me the most beautiful thing on earth, perhaps because it is unearthly, and the touch of God in us: the miracle of mercy, the unexpected, the arms of the prodigal son's father, the ravens bringing food in the night, the cup running over.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#25. Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul
Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?
Richard Eberhart
#27. Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. ("Dayspring Mishandled")
Rudyard Kipling
#28. We live without power of law, like flocks of ravens
they come and sweep over the land.
Alexander Pushkin
#30. I slipped outside ... and into the realm of the ravens.
Laura Bickle
#31. And then a prince will come along and say the magic words and three ravens will give you the magic tokens and a fish will carry you on his back
Peter Straub
#32. So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.
Hannah Kent
#33. God's providence is never characterized
in broad generalities or pious abstractions but always in the particular, in the personal, in the recognition of grace in an unlikely time, at an unlikely place. Who could have anticipated ravens?
Eugene H. Peterson
#34. Was Ronan even human? Half a dreamer, half a dream, maker of ravens and hoofed girls and entire lands.
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan. I have them tattooed on me.
Carmelo Anthony
#36. It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But the reality of that is very difficult, as we know, in this league for any QB when defense is playing good. And the Ravens played well.
Herman Edwards
#37. He is a rare bird,' the maester said. 'Most ravens will eat grain, but they prefer flesh. It makes them strong, and I fear they relish the taste of blood. In that they are like men ... and like men, not all ravens are alike.
George R R Martin
#38. Put a tray of cookies out and the Ravens were like a bunch of eight-year-olds, not a clubhouse full of hard-ass bikers.
Laura Kaye
#39. Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.
George R R Martin
#40. Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.
P.C. Cast
#41. Ravens are like step-children," Ty answered as he squinted up at the screen. "I love them, but they're still sleeping on the couch when the house is full.
Abigail Roux
#42. Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ's blood. Father, my heart, my heart.' Surely God, who hears the cry of ravens, will hear the cry of his children!
Thomas Watson
#43. In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.
Li Bai
#44. I am Crone, eldest of the Moon's Great Ravens, whose eyes have looked upon a hundred thousand years of human folly. Hence my tattered coat and broken beak as evidence of your indiscriminate destruction. I am but a winged witness of your eternal madness.
Steven Erikson
#45. I want limits, damn it. I'll accept omens and portents and second sight. I'll accept giant black hounds and creepy ravens and magpies. I'm still working out the fae and Wild Hunt thing. But I draw the line at people disappearing into thin air.
Kelley Armstrong
#46. Ravens were omnivores and ate an array of tidbits including insects, seeds, berries, meat, and carrion, the dead flesh of animals, which made her cringe.
Lauren Quick
#47. Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril.
James D. Doss
#48. I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.
Maggie Stiefvater
#49. If men do not feed you, ravens shall; and if earth yields not wheat, heaven shall drop with manna.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#50. Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?
George R R Martin
#51. She hugged him and said, "Flowers and ravens," because she wanted him to know she remembered.
Then she hugged Matthew and said, "My love," because he was her favorite.
She said nothing at all to Declan, because he wasn't there.
Maggie Stiefvater
#52. This is a time for beasts, Jaime reflected, for lions and wolves and angry dogs, for ravens and carrion crows.
George R R Martin
#53. Neil didn't care how many hearts they broke that night. They'd beaten USC. When the Trojans lost to the Ravens next week they'd be eliminated from championships. The Foxes were going to finals, and that was the only thing that mattered. -
Nora Sakavic
#54. Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.
Janine Benyus
#55. Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.
Peter S. Beagle
#57. From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.
Taliesin
#58. Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
Louise Erdrich
#59. Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch & interpret every sound in the universe.
Toni Morrison
#60. Ravens! Always the ravens. They settled on the gables of the church even before the injured became the dead.
Mark Lawrence
#62. Shadow felt deeply uncomfortable: it was like watching an old wolf stalking a fawn too young to know that if it did not run, and run now, it would wind up in a distant glade with its bones picked clean by the ravens.
Neil Gaiman
#63. I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football.
Art Donovan
#64. Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?
Tobsha Learner
#65. I am so proud to be the Baltimore Ravens' first Hall of Fame inductee.
Jonathan Ogden
#66. Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot.
Margaret Atwood
#67. We'll always be grateful for the love we've received from all of our fans and supporters, and for winning a Super Bowl, i'll always be proud to say I played for the Baltimore Ravens.
Ray Rice
#68. Consciousness is not a thing. It is a continuum without boundaries. We can most readily see its presence or absence in the extremes. In mussels, and in men. Is one of those extremes for birds found in ravens? Is it of sufficient magnitude for us to detect with our feeble detectors, our minds?
Bernd Heinrich
#69. I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
Francis Quarles
#70. It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
Plautus
#71. The Raven's house is built with reeds, - Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.
Thomas D
#72. The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.
Kerstin Gier
#73. You are not one of Pentrigrel's creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette's fate.
T.A. Miles
#74. She nodded and watched him job up the steps. And good God did he do all kinds of justice to a pair of jeans.
Laura Kaye
#75. The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.
Charles Spurgeon
#76. Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ...
Penelope Gilliatt
#77. Quite, Justin told them. I'm trying to have a moment.
Richelle Mead
#78. Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.
Mordecai Richler
#79. Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.
Dean Potter
#80. He hadn't really rejected her, had he?
Or maybe she was reading into her memory of the moment what she wanted to see.
Probably.
Then again, he'd been hard. And he;s looked at her like he wanted to eat her. And she was totally game to be his buffet.
Laura Kaye
#81. Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice
Lewis Carroll
#82. Our choices in these next few moments could only change how we suffered.
Not if.
From everything I could see, that was already decided.
Lola Dodge
#83. For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.
Tom Conrad
#84. I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.
Bill Reid
#85. Instead it yanks on a worm wiggling in the loosened soil. Its feathers shimmer in the morning sunlight, a malignant green on black as it tosses its beak back, devouring the worm, and then it cocks its head to stare at her, its eyes funereal and questioning.
Sara Stark
#86. To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#87. Rejuvenate one's soul first, than rejuvenation of the mind and body will then follow.
Scott Ravens
#88. Meeting Raven Wilkinson and having her as a mentor, it was that kind of support from the generations that came before me that helped to lift me up and give me the confidence to then be able to give back and bring other minorities with me on this journey.
Misty Copeland
#89. He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
Seneca The Younger
#90. When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked.
Anthony Horowitz
#91. You saved me tonight."
"No," he said, eyes flashing, one brow arched. "You saved yourself, Al. I was just your getaway driver.
Laura Kaye
#92. There's something in there," Matt said. "Something alive. It punched me."
"Punched you?" Baldwin's face screwed up. "Are you sure a bat didn't fly into you? I bet there are a few in there."
Matt rubbed his tender jaw. "Unless its name is Bruce Wayne, that wasn't a bat.
K.L. Armstrong
#93. I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven
Jacoby Jones
#94. We'll let that be plan A." Nick said. "But you know as well as I do that plan A often gets fucked when it meets reality.
Laura Kaye
#95. One kiss wouldn't be so bad, but
No. That was the problem right there. It would be a gateway kiss. Then there'd be tongue and heavy breathing and feelings. I needed to nip that right in the bud. Because after the kissing came all the dying.
Lola Dodge
#96. I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams.
Zendaya
#97. The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white.
Ovid
#98. To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
Robert Jordan
#99. My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.
Bob Dylan
#100. You realize if you stand in my kitchen, I'm gonna put you to work, right?" Bunny asked after a minute.
"I'm at your service," he said.
She laughed. "My favorite words ever.
Laura Kaye
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