Chariot Quotes
An old image that still moves the imagination.
These chariot quotes cover surprising ground, from a childhood memory of a showgirl-pulled chariot entrance to the mechanics of an ancient direction-finding device. The range shows how versatile the image remains. See Battle quotes for the more combative side of the theme.
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
I turned 7 in 1973 and remember Bobby Riggs arriving at the Astrodome on a chariot pulled by showgirls before his 'battle of the sexes' tennis match against Billie Jean King.
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In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital...
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Against Quotes
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions...
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.
Always Quotes
I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
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One quote turns the moon itself into a chariot crossing the sky, showing the word's poetic reach. Continue with Back quotes for more reflective, backward-looking lines.
