Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hal Turner

When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Herman Melville

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

Henry David Thoreau

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

Jim Elliot

Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth.

Jenji Kohan

We're also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We'd like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on.

Jason Scott Lee

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

Evelyn Waugh

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

Gregory Corso

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

Gene Autry

You'll wake up on Easter morning, And you'll know that he was there, When you find those choc'late bunnies, That he's hiding ev'rywhere.

Frederick William Robertson

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

Fred Astaire

Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say: "Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others". I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say: "All right, that's that. What's next?"

Fred Allen

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

George Herbert

The Jews spend at Easter.

George Herbert

Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

Christina Rossetti

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all the earth's at play.

George W. Bush

If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

Frederick Buechner

Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

That (100 backstroke) was a really big event for us. East had their big swims in the 100 free, and we knew we had to come back and score well.

It was a good meet for us. It showed that we're starting to come around and the fact that we qualified so many people for the Big East showed that we're starting to get ready for the Championships.

I've got to give Eastern Michigan credit. Every time we went on a run, they responded.

I'm just happy the team is doing well. We're winning games and we want to get to the Big East Tournament. I'm a little more comfortable out there but my teammates are doing a good job of finding me.

Dennis Murphy

It looks like as you go east and north from here it gets better.

Dave Roberts

The Avery School will remain a vibrant part of not only the East Dedham community, but of the town of Dedham.

It's playoffs now; that doesn't really matter. We had to concentrate on getting a Hockey East championship.

Terry Anderson

Do not let it happen here on the East Coast; you'll be sorry.

do everything in order to improve their lives and to complete, step by step, the growing together of eastern and western Germany.

It was an Easter miracle that no one got hurt, and that so many people stuck their necks out to help.

Richard Grasso

It will be a market that will have very little to do with Eastern Standard Time,

Jim Calhoun

It's back to the Big East of old, to some degree. There are no easy games. This is a Georgetown-Syracuse weekend, which we've faced on a number of occasions. It's an important time for us.

It's a great opportunity to play an excellent Big East team.