Famous Quotes & Sayings

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Marc Maron

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

Marjane Satrapi

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Chase Budinger

The East thought they were going to come out and win this game easily, but we clamped down on them defensively in the second half and we played with a lot of inspiration.

The Easter shift really exposed the soft underbelly of those retailers that have been struggling.

The Eastern Region has really fast skiers, but they don't have as much depth.

The Eastern game was such an emotional one that to come out of it and come over to play at Ballard in the next game is tough. I'm proud of these kids. They just let it roll off their shoulder, play hard and get the win.

The Easter effect is a reality. If you go on vacation later, you postpone your shopping.

Henry David Thoreau

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man confronts a fact

The freshmen haven't been there yet, so they really don't know the meaning of a Big East championship. I don't think that they take it for granted. I just don't think they know what it means yet.

The fundamentals of German policy on the Middle East remain firm.

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.

Madeleine L'Engle

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Madeleine L'Engle

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

John F. Kennedy

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

Jon Stewart

A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to Hide-The-Eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, "When I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is off."

Pico Iyer

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

Phillips Brooks

Christ will rise on Easter day!

Phillips Brooks

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.

Phillips Brooks

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

Phillips Brooks

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."

Phillips Brooks

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

Philip Yancey

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

Philip Yancey

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

Pope Benedict XVI

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

Pope Benedict XVI

To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

Pope Benedict XVI

We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

John McCain

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

John Guare

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

John F. Kerry

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

Leon Uris

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

Karl Barth

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.