Eyes Quotes

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

~ Babe Ruth

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

~ Dolly Parton

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

~ Richard Avedon

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

~ Giuseppe Verdi

Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.

~ Sarah Parcak

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

~ Jules Verne

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

~ Neil Strauss

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

~ Ernest Gaines

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

~ Adam Rickitt

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

~ Sherri Shepherd

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.

~ Bruce Oldfield

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

~ Michael Phelps

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

~ Guy Finley

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

~ Chief Joseph

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

~ Prince Charles

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

~ Ulrich Beck

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

~ Toussaint Louverture

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

~ Buzz Aldrin