Top 172 Kingdoms Quotes & Sayings

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the Great Creator silently, daily, and often many times a day, to permit me to speak to Him through the three great Kingdoms of the world which He has created - the animal, mineral, and vegetable Kingdoms - to understand their relations to each other, and our relations to them and to the Great God who made all of us. I ask Him daily and often momently to give me wisdom, understanding, and bodily strength to do His will; hence I am asking and receiving all the time.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

Paul ascended into the third heavens and he could understand the THREE PRINCIPLE ROUNDS of Jacobs ladder - the telestial, the terrestrial, and the celestial glories or kingdoms, when Paul saw and heard things which were not lawful to utter. I COULD EXPLAIN A HUNDREDFOLD MORE THAN I EVER HAVE of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision were I permitted and were the people ready to receive them.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Like any good RPG, 'Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning' is adept at digging its claws into that part of your brain that just loves accomplishing things.

There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.

The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.

As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead of acknowledging that the pilot is made for the sake of the ship, her lading, and her crew, who are always the owners in the political vessel; as to say that kingdoms were instituted for kings, not kings for kingdoms.

When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.

Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that's absolutely no pressure.

And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart?

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

If you will move now, within the next three years the land you find yourself in will be producing great treasures. In the third year, the War of the Kingdoms will begin, and Kingdom will rise against kingdoms. The kingdoms of this world will also come into great conflict. I have a Kingdom that I am preparing. I will remember this Kingdom and the Seed and the Seed's seed of this Kingdom. I have a Kingdom that will triumph! Shout that the kingdoms of this earth are becoming My Kingdoms!

God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.