Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. . . . Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.
Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!
In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.
Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.
before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow
When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.
Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.
When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.
When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
The gate of heaven is everywhere.
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.