Quotes about Caves

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. Votes: 4

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Cracks make caves collapse. Votes: 3

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Votes: 3

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Votes: 3

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable. Votes: 3

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. Votes: 3

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. Votes: 3

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones. Votes: 3

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat. Votes: 3

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. Votes: 3

I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that Votes: 3

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. Votes: 3

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. Votes: 3

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. Votes: 3

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever. Votes: 3

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show. Votes: 3

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. Votes: 3

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? Votes: 3

It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel. Votes: 3

Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it. Votes: 3

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. Votes: 3

I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that. Votes: 3

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? Votes: 3

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe. Votes: 1

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. Votes: 1

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves. Votes: 1

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians. Votes: 1

Although the tech industry is very open to change, many people still have a closed-off mentality where, in the interest of protecting their ideas, they keep them hidden in dark caves. Votes: 1

You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave. Votes: 1

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors. Votes: 1

I was astounded to learn that Alaskan caves might be hiding secrets about the earliest people ever to enter the Americas. That's when I began to picture a story that would start with kayaking and lead into the caves. Votes: 1

We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we're all about. Votes: 1

The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called. Votes: 1

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet. Votes: 1

Birds never sing in caves. Votes: 0

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves. Votes: 0

I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES! Votes: 0

His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths. Votes: 0

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. Votes: 0

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. Votes: 0

Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Votes: 0

People have been sharing pictures of their food for as long as there's been caves. Votes: 0

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. Votes: 0

The CIA's resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves-not polar bears on icebergs. Votes: 0

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man. Votes: 0

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. Votes: 0

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks. Votes: 0

When the world caves inStill my hope will clingTo Your promiseWhere my courage endsLet my heart find strengthIn Your presence Votes: 0

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves. Votes: 0

People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours. Votes: 0

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves. Votes: 0

People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. Votes: 0

Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated. Votes: 0

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. Votes: 0

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves. Votes: 0

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. Votes: 0

Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine. Votes: 0

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Votes: 0

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death. Votes: 0

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again. Votes: 0

Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying. Votes: 0

With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves. Votes: 0

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies. Votes: 0

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. Votes: 0

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God. Votes: 0

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in. Votes: 0

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. Votes: 0

You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness! Votes: 0

This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States. Votes: 0

Do not always run away from the darkness! Remember the beautiful lakes which are hidden inside the dark caves! In the least expected places, there exist the most beautiful treasures! Votes: 0

John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table. Votes: 0

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Votes: 0

Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying. Votes: 0

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. Votes: 0

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be. Votes: 0

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord. Votes: 0

If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space. Votes: 0

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves. Votes: 0

Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind. Votes: 0

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. Votes: 0

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe. Votes: 0

Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind. Votes: 0