Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stott

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

Martin Luther

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

Marilu Henner

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

Peter De Vries

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

All of our new items will be on the shelves next week. We have Easter items and we will have pre-made Easter baskets.

Edward Thomas

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Edie Brickell

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

Holly Madison

I just feel kind of out of place on Easter. I feel kind of useless because everybody else has kids and I don't and I'm just standing there with nothing to do.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

The European Tour plays all over the world: from the U.K. to China, from Korea to South Africa, and from the Middle East to southeast Asia.

Chuck D.

The growth for our sector will happen in the international markets -- particularly in emerging markets like China, like India, like the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.

Olivia De Havilland

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

These homes are being shipped to Texarkana from over 370 locations east of the Rocky Mountains.

This is my last year, I don't want to play in the NIT and not even make the Big East tournament. We have to go full throttle.

Geno Auriemma

The goal is not to play Rutgers three times, the goal is to win the Big East championship. It would be disrespectful to West Virginia to think like that. We set out to get ourselves in position to win a championship and put ourselves in the same position we put ourselves in last Monday (a 48-42 loss at Rutgers) and try to make the outcome a little different.

The goal of reducing Middle East imports is a meaningless goal.

John Dryden

The lovely Thais by his side, / Sat like a blooming Eastern bride.

Emily Bronte

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

Simon Kinberg

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.

Robert Anderson

Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask "Where is the love of God?" God points to that Cross as the unreserved manifestation of love so inconceivably infinite as to answer every challenge and silence all doubt for ever. And that Cross is not merely the public proof of what God has accomplished; it is the earnest of all that He has promised.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Thom Yorke

The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs

Shimon Peres

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Rachel Cohn

So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.

Henry A. Kissinger

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Jose Saramago

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

You can't have a better Easter than this.

Martin Scorsese

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Laura Linney

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

John Updike

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

John Updike

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

John Shelby Spong

I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

John Shelby Spong

At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.