Kingdom Quotes

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. (Democritus)
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. View quote
George Best
A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse. View quote
William Shakespeare
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. View quote
H. G. Wells
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. (Thomas Szasz)
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. View quote
Elie Wiesel
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England. View quote
George Mikes
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. View quote
John Wesley
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. View quote
Robert Burton
I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars. View quote
Peter Atkins
The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the landscape is largely characterized by transitions ... View quote
Peter Atkins
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. View quote
Sun Tzu
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom. View quote
T. S. Eliot
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. View quote
James Joyce
...the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. (John Burroughs)
The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law. View quote
Rousas John Rushdoony
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. View quote
Donald Cargill
God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all. View quote
George Carey
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. View quote
Kate Adie