Cones Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Cones". There are currently 93 quotes in our collection about Cones. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Cones!
The best sayings about Cones that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

  • I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

    Thinking   Mind   Orbit  
  • The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

    David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.31, Vintage
  • We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

    Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.86, Knopf Group E-Books
  • He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. 'So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend?'

  • Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

    Simple   Wish   May  
  • [I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

  • Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.

    Eye   Goal   Daylight  
  • Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

    Teamwork   Player   Guy  
  • On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

    Night   Pie   Ice Cream  
    Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.19, Penguin
  • Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?

    James Joseph Sylvester (1973). “1854-1973”
  • My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

    Couple   Hands   Years  
  • Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

    Flower   Eye   Circles  
  • The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

    Funny   Running   Travel  
  • I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky down my face and arms, the sun in my eyes, breaking through clouds and glinting off the rain-soaked pavement and dripping leaves. I was running with joy, an overwhelming joy that arose simply from gratitude for the fact of being alive. Along with the image, memory carried these words from a child's mind through time: I am blessed. In this life I am truly blessed.

  • In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And cuddled up skeleton; And scores of such. Some start as in dreams, And comrades lost bemoan; By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged- But the year and the Man were gone.

    Dream   War   Gun  
    Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.102, Kent State University Press
  • Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

    Men   Smell   Hot  
  • 'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

    Fun   Real   Ice Cream  
    "Test Marketing a New Term ..." by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2005.
  • You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

    Flower   Night   Doors  
    Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.5, New Directions Publishing
  • By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

    Daughter   Dark   Moon  
    'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'
  • A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 283 (14 April 1778)
  • I saw a young boy eating an ice cream cone, ... I smashed it in his face. You know that kid is going to remember me when he's 50.

    Funny   Kids   Boys  
  • He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

    Apples   Tree   Neighbor  
    "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)
  • I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

    Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”
  • All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

    Sleep   Science   Men  
  • Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

    Nature   Lying   Science  
    "Benoît Mandelbrot obituary' by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2010.
  • No, I was just good at holding ice cream cones.

    Ice Cream   Cones   Ice  
  • Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

    Photography   Eye   Cones  
  • Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear

  • My ice is so cold, it should come on a cone.

    Ice   Cold   Cones  
    Song: Come on a Cone, Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Deluxe Edition, 2012
Page 1 of 4
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • We hope our collection of Cones quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Cones is constantly growing (today it includes 93 sayings from famous people about Cones), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Cones!