Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alfred Noyes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I thought we gave Eastern some trouble. I thought we gave them a good game.

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.

Gene Luen Yang

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.

We're trying to raise a lot of money for Easter Seals and the reason why we're doing it is when Rick was smaller he used to go to the swim program, all the different camps, and we just feel it's payback time for all the things Easter Seals has done for Rick.

When you live in Vancouver, you realize most of the population is in eastern North America.

There has been some position-squaring before the Easter holidays.

We saw her on Easter and two or three minutes here and there. We don't get to see Kendra much, so we're just going out and sightseeing a little bit.

David Letterman

Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails.

Billy Graham

your faith and hope are in god.

Billy Graham

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

Billy Graham

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

The good news is if you're an Eastern Maine fan, you're going to see all your favorite teams on TV.

Men will not be taking a back seat on spending this holiday, ... Retailers that market Easter merchandise solely to women will be missing out on a big piece of the pie.

Mark Richt

We have an opportunity this week, if we can find some way to win it, to clinch the Eastern Division. I don't know if that's going to happen or not. We just have to take inventory of who can play right now.

We'll have Easter egg hunts in our Halloween costumes.

Anne Lamott

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

Annie Besant

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

Alexander MacLaren

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

Douglas Horton

Sherrill On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

David Friedrich Strauss

...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

Dan Brown

At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.

David Cameron

Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.

Dolly Parton

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

Desmond Tutu

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

Deepak Chopra

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.