So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.
Coo. . . coo. . . here comes the dove from above!
That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.
Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
I'm trying to be present in my daughters life as much as I can. I didn't have any kids or really any family. I have a family but I just dove into work 1,000%. I think as an artist when you're young like that, when you move into your 30's or 40's if you have time to focus on that you need that time. It's part of that.
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.
I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.
I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down. . . ' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.
Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.
The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
