Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richelle Mead

Dierdre the counselor must not have had much of a life, because she scheduled our next appointment on a Sunday. I wasn't so thrilled about it, seeing as it wasn't just my day off-it was also the day my friends had off. Orders were orders, however, so I grudgingly showed up.

Thomas Paine

The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.

Thomas de Quincey

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Tim LaHaye

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.

Saadi

All is going well so far. There are some remarks here and there and there are some complaints here and there but we expect to resolve those questions or complaints Sunday and the next day.

Susan Orlean

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

Steve Jobs

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Steve Sabol

I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.

Viktor E. Frankl

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

Susan Wiggs

On Sunday, something washed up on shore.

Stephen Lang

Occasionally, I have time to go to the theater, and I think for a minute, 'Man, I'd really love to be doing a play right now.' Because I loved doing plays when I was doing them. Then I think, 'I want to do it right now, but will I want to do that Sunday matinee in six weeks?'

Stephen Leacock

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

Steven Spielberg

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

Scottie Pippen

The mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays.

Pope Francis

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Thomas B. Macaulay

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

Tim Tebow

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

Russell Baker

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Truman Capote

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

Raymond Chandler

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

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.

Haruki Murakami

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.

Haruki Murakami

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Kami Garcia

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

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.

Voltaire

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

Woody Allen

I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

William Saroyan

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

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.