Tamer Quotes

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! (Thomas Gray)
I'll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer. (Aimee) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. View quote
Dorothea Lange
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it. View quote
Aimee Bender
Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways. View quote
Johann Gottfried Herder
When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit. View quote
Christopher Walken
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. View quote
Tori Amos
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. (Boris Pasternak)
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death - then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. View quote
Boris Pasternak
I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve. View quote
Les Dawson