Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Nathan Deal

Republicans can vote on Sundays too, just after they go to Church.

Kristen Bell

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

Kerry Collins

The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position,

John Gottman

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

Gene Hall

The lake doesn't have a bacterial problem. That's the most comforting thing.

Peter Zumthor

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Pam Sutherland

It was comforting that the governor was there to protect women's access. I think women will be able to rest easy knowing that governor will veto any legislation that comes to his desk.

Anthony Chan

It would have been a lot more comforting to see greater strength in the ex-auto component than in the headline figure.

Steven Wieting

This is not entirely comforting but you'd need a lot more information than one month's PPI at the turn of the year to worry about inflation,

Jane Smiley

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

Aimee Bender

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Halle Berry

I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.