Top 123 Spear Quotes & Sayings

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

Never has a spear moved so fast!

And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

Hanajima, my spear! Bring me my spear!

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

We used to tie a skipping rope to a pitchfork and try to spear big carp. We never got one. My kids love that story, very 'Lord of the Flies.'

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.

I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear.

The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.

Awww," Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

A well-aimed spear is worth three.

I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

I suppose Roger [Ruskin Spear] had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

If anything, I was the definite edge of the spear into The Attitude Era, I believe, so it was way before its time, the stuff I was doing, and it kind of set the tone for what was to come.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against.

In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.

When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.

For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear And slay.

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

If I were in charge of the Olympics, I would probably try to put something for the javelin guy to aim at. Not just length, but see if you could spear something.

I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

A sharp spear needs no polish.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

The Navy Seals don't travel with 200 people, they wouldn't be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.

I wield my spear in the name of justice!

I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!