Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Dickens

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

Charles Spurgeon

The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.

Charles Spurgeon

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Charles Spurgeon

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Charles Spurgeon

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Alan Watts

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

Alan Greenspan

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Charles Williams

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Bob Dylan

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Anderson Cooper

We heard church bells ringing. We heard people yelling, screaming, clapping. A friend of one of the miners came over, crying, to tell us that he had heard and just been told in the church that 12 of them (miners) had been found alive.

Kamala Harris

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

Elizabeth Gaskell

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

LeVar Burton

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

Mary Neubauer

Obviously, the machines are big and fancy and there are bells and whistles. But they're just a fancy way of dispensing tickets.

Pat Brogan

Fundamentals for the Bells are going to continue to deteriorate over the next couple of quarters.

Charles Spurgeon

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

April Winchell

Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

Ben Nicholson

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

Zubin Mehta

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

Charles Eastman

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

C. S. Lewis

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

Joan Rivers

My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

George W. Romney

Our body is the temple of our spirit.