Throne Quotes
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
They had 'The Godfather' theme, like 'I'm coming back to take the throne. This is mine and I'm taking it back.' They had their game faces on. The Quad was very precise. I thought they were creative.
Patricia Roberts
A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.
Andrew H. Malcolm
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
George Clemenceau
And no, we have no obligation to come to Chicago, kneel before your throne and beg to freely exercise the rights that so many before us have died for. To be honest, Mr. Mayor, I think Chicago would be a much better place if you spent less time in front of the cameras and more time behind your desk.
Richard Pearson
All passes. Art alone/ Enduring stays to us;/ The bust outlasts the throne.
Austin Dobson
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
This case is about politics, political opinion and the role of the heir to the throne in relation to these issues.
Mark Warby
We wanted to emphasize his humanity. After all, this was a 9-year-old kid who came to the throne at the most turbulent time that we know about in terms of religion, in terms of philosophy, in terms of art, architecture and language.
His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.
Jerry Ryan
CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was .
The door opened and it was God himself who walked into the room, straight from the glittering throne, God dressed in a camel's hair polo coat and flat camel's hair cap.
He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where angels tremble while they gaze, / He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.
Thomas Gray
Google is this era's transformational computing platform and could be about to unseat Microsoft from its throne.
Stephen Arnold
He wanted to be famous. And these older artists were in the way. Beuys was the closest thing there was to a god in Germany then. And you have to kill the king to get to the throne.
Michel Würthle
INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to make it warm again.
Caboose, cabin car, crummy, way car, van, ape cage, throne room, hack, buggy, the office, shanty, monkey house, bedbug haven-American railroaders have known the last car on a freight train by all these names and more, and often as an ever-so-humble home.
Donald Dale Jackson
The climax was when the golden stool was brought in, which represents the Ashanti soul and is believed to have descended from heaven 200 years ago. This stool is so precious, it's a throne that no individual can sit on. This was paraded in for the first time in 25 years and was placed on its own throne and presented for one day only to the public.
Carol Beckwith