Thunder Below Quotes

#1. History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Voltaire

#2. God has preserved us hitherto, God will preserve us still.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Mark Twain

#4. If Fairyland-Below is Fairyland's shadow, what is the shadow of Fairyland-Below? What's under the underworld?"
Ell laughed like thunder rolling somewhere far off. "I'm afraid it's underworlds all the way down, my dearest, darling flying ace.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Because the guy on the other side of the line is gonna find out what I'm made of. I would wreak holy hell on that guy.

Steven M. Southwick

#8. The swallows, fleeing before the hoopoes, shall have all flocked together in one place, and shall refrain them from all amorous commerce, then will be the end of all the ills of life; yea, and Zeus, which doth thunder in the skies, shall set above what was erst below ...

Aristophanes

#9. Lightning flashed around the island; thunder played its favorite game of scaring the crap out of all the shivering mortals on the earth below.

Pat Conroy