Wild Quotes - page 3

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? (Emily Brontë)
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. View quote
Joseph Conrad
You can't just let nature run wild. View quote
Walt Disney
A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling. View quote
Olivia Wilde
You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats. View quote
Tippi Hedren
It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets. View quote
Tippi Hedren
Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. View quote
Tippi Hedren
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. View quote
Carson McCullers
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young. (Burt Ward)
Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well. View quote
Anthony Anderson
I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot. View quote
Bruce McCulloch
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow. View quote
Martha Reeves
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view. View quote
Rachel Carson
Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger. View quote
Leonard Cohen
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
All good things are wild, and free. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold. View quote
Francis Parkman
A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity. (Jean-Baptiste Say)
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured. View quote
Yann Martel
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. View quote
Herbert Spencer
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush. View quote
Laura Welch Bush