Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rory McCann

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

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.

He doesn't keep me up. I think the more you worry the worse you play. If you get too worried about him, you're going be worried about him on Sunday when you play and it's going take you out of your game.

Richard Baxter

Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!

Truman Capote

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Rick Riordan

Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

Rick Riordan

Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.

Reynolds Price

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

Woody Allen

Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.

William Wordsworth

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

William Gibson

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

Sarah Carter

I find day after day of sunshine boring.

Samuel Pepys

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Tori Amos

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?

Vance Havner

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

Robert Plant

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

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.

Sara Paretsky

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

Wallace Stevens

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

Willa Cather

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

Ryan Seacrest

I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun

W. H. Auden

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

Tory Burch

I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Robert Palmer

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

Walt Whitman

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

Walt Whitman

Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth! Smile, for your lover comes!

Saul Williams

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

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.

Ziggy Marley

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

Voltaire

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.