Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitey Herzog

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

Robyn Carr

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

Virgil Thomson

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

Elle Macpherson

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

Ennio Morricone

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

Epictetus

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Oprah Winfrey

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

Rachel Caine

Here. Have a Coke. That’s good for a sore throat, right?” “Good for everything,” Shane croaked, and took the extended cold can with good grace. “Thanks.” “You owe me a dollar,” Eve said. “I’ll add it to the five thousand you already owe me, though.” He blew her a kiss, and she stuck her tongue out at him, and that was the end of the subject, thankfully.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

William Wilberforce

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

Sara Paretsky

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

Rose Wilder Lane

Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater proprietyand stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

Toots Thielemans

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Jacob Bronowski

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

Doug Tewell

Sunday is going to be a lot of fun,

Mark Morris

Sunday is a day of rest.

Leigh Hunt

O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.

Pope Benedict XVI

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

Rusty Brown

The only thing I would do differently is, I might make the great room wider and longer. When we do get a ton of people up here, this room is full - but that's like designing a church for Easter Sunday.

Edward McKendree Bounds

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Steve Sexton

It is a joy each year to see the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs through the eyes of talented young students.

Kiaran McLaughlin

It gets more like Churchill ( Downs ) all the time.

Roger Mahony

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.

Dick Vitale

I went to church and Jim and his wife, Liz, went to see the home.

Bernard Ebbers

I want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

Steve Nelson

There is always two parts. That part that gets lost, in our opinion, is the fact that church is a business, ... It's not just a business. But nevertheless it is still a business.

Paul McGee

He was getting more horses and more clients, and he was winning races. He had a good Churchill meet, and things were really picking up for him. It's really a shame.