If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
Quotes about caves (16 Quotes)
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.
I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.
Canon Farrar accepts the traditional belief that the shelter within which Jesus was born was that of one of the numerous limestone caves which abound in the region, and which are still used by travelers as resting places. He says 'In Palestine it not inf.
I fled, and cryd out, Death Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.
We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.
Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains in the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar, Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known.
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts -- who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves -- was a civilizing triumph.
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
We will endeavour to shew how the aire and genious of Gardens operate upon humane spirits towards virtue and sancitie, I meane in a remote, preparatory and instrumentall working. How Caves, Grotts, Mounts, and irregular ornaments of Gardens do contribute to contemplative and philosophical Enthusiasms how Elysium, Antrum, Nemus, Paradysus, Hortus, Lucus, c.,signifie all of them rem sacram et divinam for these expedients do influence the soule and spirits of man, and prepare them for converse with good Angells besides which, they contribute to the lesse abstracted pleasures, phylosophy naturall and longevitie.
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.