Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Todd Rundgren

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

Skitch Henderson

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

They’re plotting against you. (Jaden) Who? (Jericho) Your best friends, fool, who do you think? The Easter Bunny or the assholes who brought you here? FYI, they’re planning to feed you to the gallu so that they can control your powers without your fighting them. If I were you, I’d be gone five minutes ago. (Jaden)

Nicolas Cage

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

Henry A. Kissinger

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Nina Hagen

I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

John Waters

The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

John Stott

We live and die; Christ died and lived!

Martin Scorsese

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Laura Linney

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

John Updike

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

John Updike

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

John Shelby Spong

I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

John Shelby Spong

At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Martin Luther

In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

Marilu Henner

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

Peter De Vries

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

Marjane Satrapi

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

You can't have a better Easter than this.

These homes are being shipped to Texarkana from over 370 locations east of the Rocky Mountains.

This is my last year, I don't want to play in the NIT and not even make the Big East tournament. We have to go full throttle.

N. T. Wright

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

John Prescott

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

Scott Maddox

How many extra pitches did Phillip have to throw because we didn't make some plays? It's disheartening to play as well as we did at East Rowan (a 4-1 win on Monday) and then turn around and not play with any intensity today. We need to be pushing forward, but we're playing one good game, then taking a step back.

Madeleine L'Engle

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Madeleine L'Engle

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

John F. Kennedy

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

Jon Stewart

A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to Hide-The-Eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, "When I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is off."

Joanna Newsom

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.