Quotes and Sayings About Dragons
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
-- A. N. Wilson -
At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.
-- Aaron Broussard -
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
-- Alan Turing -
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
-- Alexander Pope -
Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.
-- Alexandra AdornettoSource : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.426, Macmillan
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Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you." "And that's the definition of a real friend?" "Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
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Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
-- Alfred Richard OrageSource : Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”
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And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding
-- Allan BoesakSource : Allan Aubrey Boesak (1987). “Comfort and Protest: Reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos”
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There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.
-- Analeigh Tipton -
You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.
-- Anderson Silva -
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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
-- Andrew SolomonSource : Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
-- Andrew SolomonSource : Andrew Solomon (2012). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.
-- Angie SageSource : Angie Sage (2012). “Physik: Septimus Heap”, p.149, A&C Black
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I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
-- Anna KavanSource : Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”
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How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can
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Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
-- Anne McCaffrey -
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When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.
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Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.
-- Arthur Davison FickeSource : Arthur Davison Ficke (1938). “Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry”
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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
-- Bernie Siegel -
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.
-- Bill Vaughan -
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
-- Bruce Cockburn -
Dad just told me that I'm the son of a dragon!And then he leaves?
-- Bryan Davis -
If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?
-- Bryan Davis -
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I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me
-- Burton Raffel -
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
-- C. S. Lewis