Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Karon

Easter is never deserved.

Kim Jee-woon

I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Bill Hicks

In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night

Charles Spurgeon

Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.

Charles Spurgeon

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

shootouts at Easter egg hunts -- that's what it comes down to.

Argus Hamilton

Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

Ben Harper

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.

Goldie Hawn

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

What we have seen in Eastern Europe, particularly in some of the former Soviet republics, is just a very accelerated increase in infection, primarily through intravenous drug use.

Brian Cox

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

George Grey

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

Adolf Hitler

More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.

Andrew Murray

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

Shalrie Joseph

We are not going to sit back, even when we are on the road. We will keep doing what got us to the top of the Eastern Conference.

Mary McCarthy

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

Western Pennsylvania is showing signs of job growth but it isn't growing as quickly as what we're seeing in the eastern half of the state.

Alfred Noyes

Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

A. E. Housman

'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.

Jared Diamond

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

Jared Diamond

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

There are no immediate plans right now. But we (need) schools in the eastern part of the city.

Money will flow to where there are solid returns on capital. There are great opportunities in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. We're seeing economic growth twice that of the U.S. but stocks are trading at a discount.

From what we can see, it's a trend that is moving into Eastern Washington from Western Washington.

Robert Torricelli

I hate on Easter morning to talk about retribution, but there's gonna be retribution.

C. S. Lewis

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Charles Kingsley

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices...

Antonin Scalia

To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.

Conan O'Brien

On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.

Conan O'Brien

Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.