Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Stanley

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Ariel Sharon

I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don't plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.

Bayard Taylor

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

Elaine Pagels

The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation.

Nabil Sha'ath

There is no more time for interim issues, ... Jerusalem has to be solved, and the refugees and the territorial has to be solved, if we are going to make a permanent peace.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

Ahmed Qurei

an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Bible Bible

And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Yitzhak Rabin

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

Charles Spurgeon

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

Bob Brown

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

Joseph Addison

Through all eternity to thee, a joyful song I'll raise; for oh! Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Boris Pasternak

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

Boris Pasternak

We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

Boethius

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Elias Canetti

In eternity everything is just beginning.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.