Triumphal Quotes

#1. May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory!

Eric Metaxas

#2. I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

Stevie Wonder

#3. Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.

Calvin Miller

#4. The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.

Cennino Cennini

#5. The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#6. What begins as comedy ends as a triumphal march, wouldn't you say?

Roberto Bolano

#7. Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people.

Gloria Estefan

#8. Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Andre Breton

#9. The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

Jean Giraudoux

#10. Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable

Norman Davies

#11. The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

Ben Katchor

#12. I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.

Nicolaus Zinzendorf

#13. History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: - it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread.

Wislawa Szymborska

#14. Living a life that in fact lives them, as well as death dies them every moment since the triumphal birth in order to die.

Sorin Cerin

#15. The moment was all we truly had: a succession of moments, a triumphal march of them, to create a life beyond compare.

Margaret George

#16. Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

Shane Claiborne

#17. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time. But the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

Nikola Tesla

#18. It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

Alison Bechdel

#19. Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

Thomas Campbell

#20. They walked arm in arm, occupying the whole width of the street and taking in every Musketeer they met, so that in the end it became a triumphal march. The heart of D'Artagnan swam in delirium; he marched between Athos and Porthos, pressing them tenderly.

Alexandre Dumas

#21. [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Antonia Fraser

#22. I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

Ted Shackelford

#23. I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Aleksandar Hemon

#24. Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

Paulo Coelho

#25. There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back.

Tex Schramm

#26. Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

Patrick Stewart

#27. I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

L. Ron Hubbard