Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

John Shelby Spong

It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world. The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

Chris Ellis

I didn't think we'd have a season like this.

Henry David Thoreau

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Henry David Thoreau

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

Henry David Thoreau

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

Henry David Thoreau

Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

Jerry Falwell

AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers ... AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Jeremy Clarkson

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

Jerome K. Jerome

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven days is too long between massages

Ani Difranco

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Andrew Motion

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Amy Poehler

Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.

Ally Carter

No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.

Allen Tate

Death's long anabasis.

Alison Gopnik

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Ann Brashares

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.