Top 30 Quotes About Urns
#1. Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.
Robin Roberts
#2. Dead infants don't get urns unless you pay for them - and then they stuff crap in besides just ashes to cover the smallness.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#3. Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
Euripides
#4. The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!
The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Lord Byron
#5. You might be a redneck if every electrical outlet in your house is a fire hazard.
Jeff Foxworthy
#6. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
Ambrose Bierce
#7. I walk in bliss through flowerbeds
of broken urns, and glorify
thy flight, O Saturn, over us
along the empty starry sky.
Vladislav Khodasevich
#8. I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.
Joanne Harris
#9. Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full.
Catherine Martin
#10. In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
Madeline Miller
#11. Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
Homer
#12. I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
Ben Jonson
#13. I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.
Mike James
#16. All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need ...
Darren LaCroix
#17. We're being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they're not the folks below. Don't look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.
Jerry Brown
#18. The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.
Edwin Meese
#19. In the notseeing and the hardknowing as though in a cave he seemed to see a diminishing row of suavely shaped urns in moonlight, blanched.
William Faulkner
#20. The earth is rocking, the skies are riven
Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
Robert Williams Buchanan
#21. It is on those mist-filled nights, when the wind is strong and curious, when the air is alive with something unseen but felt, that you finally believe ... oh, yes, you finally believe what your heart has always known: magic is real and it is everywhere. - Diary of a Pagan
J.R. Rain
#23. Apart, that is, from the line of artistically naked ladies along its parapets. They were holding urns; urns is art.
Terry Pratchett
#24. I have ... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.
Colin McEnroe
#25. As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
Renzo Piano
#26. Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.
James MacDonald
#27. You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.
Melissa George
#28. It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.
Jeanne Cordova
#29. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Robert Burns
#30. But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
