Famous Quotes & Sayings

Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.

Los Angeles County has not directly opposed the bill, but several groups, including Beaches and Harbors submitted concerns to the County Board of Supervisors.

Charles Thomas

She was a remarkable woman. She was very outgoing and would talk to anybody, to the point that she'd recruit kids out of some of the worst areas in Los Angeles to go on these backpacking trips.

She was an angel, and all angels wear white. It is going to move so many people.

Edgar Cayce

For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.

Edmund Waller

Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,We should agree as angels do above.Where love presides, not vice alone does findNo entrance there, hut virtues stay behind:Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner trainOf mortal virtues, at the door remain.Love only enters as a native there,For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.

Edgar Wright

There are things that are about the entire genre, so it's weird when you look on Wikipedia and people say, "The scene where Angel grabs his fist is from Superman II," and you're thinking, "Ummm, no it's not." Or, "There's a shot from Matrix Revolutions." I'm thinking, "I've only seen Matrix Revolutions once, and will never watch it ever again."

Benjamin Franklin

If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel

Barbra Streisand

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

bell hooks

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

Bob Dylan

Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides

Bob Dylan

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

Bob Dylan

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

Billy Corgan

Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

Boris Pasternak

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

Brigham Young

Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. They have kept their first estate far enough to preserve themselves in the Priesthood. They did not so violate the law of the Priesthood and condemn themselves to the sin against the Holy Ghost as to be finally lost. They are not crowned with the celestial ones. They are persons who have lived upon an earth, but did not magnify the Priesthood in that high degree that many others have done who have become Gods, even the sons of God.

Brigham Young

All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.

Brigham Young

We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient.

Artie Lange

I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust

Edward Young

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

Edward Young

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

We believe we are a team that can succeed in East Los Angeles and New York City, but we also can succeed in places like Columbus and Salt Lake,

William Shakespeare

An angel; or, if not, An earthly paragon.

William Shakespeare

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

William Shakespeare

God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

William Shakespeare

Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.

William Shakespeare

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.