Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Diamond

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

Charles Kingsley

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices...

Bill Hicks

In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Argus Hamilton

Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

Brian K. Vaughan

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.

Jan Karon

Easter is never deserved.

Kim Jee-woon

I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Charles Bukowski

The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

Samuel Butler

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows

We usually do a lot better in the Big East competitions. That's where we show who we are.

Stark Sands

I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in the Lower East Side - to Midtown, where the theaters are. So I got to know New York, Midtown and south.

Benjamin Franklin

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

Bob Dylan

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

Antonin Scalia

To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.

Denis Leary

Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.

Denis Leary

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.

Bobby Heenan

He's the only man I know of who can hide his own easter eggs.

Bobby Heenan

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

Benjamin Franklin

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Benigno Aquino III

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

C. S. Lewis

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Craig Ferguson

Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden.

We prepared for Royal like we would for East Valley or Connell, because they are a respectable team.

Albert Einstein

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

Alfred Noyes

Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

Ali Khamenei

[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], "namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

Adolf Hitler

More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.

Brian Cox

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

Andrew Eldritch

Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

Gregory Corso

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

George Grey

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.