Ravens Quotes - Page 2

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

Raven?' Yes?' What do you believe in?' I believe in - finding out!

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

I'm truly flattered and honored that I get to be Raven for life.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise.

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

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.

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

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.

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent.

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

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.

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.

You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak." "I'll kick anyone who does." "I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket." -Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

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.