Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McCain

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

John Guare

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

After a prolonged stretch of very mild weather in the eastern U.S., winter will return in February.

Five of the top reformers were from Eastern Europe, led by Serbia and Montenegro,

There's a few million people who will see this around the country. NBC sports has always been a partner of ours. I think on Easter Sunday, late in the afternoon, it's a good time in the day where people are just settling in on the day.

Right now, we have a gas war in Eastern Europe. A politician like him would have to be in the middle of all these quarrels.

Did eastern Germany not need roads, roofs and factories more than an expensive church? But a group of residents said Dresden needed more. And now we can see that those people were right.

They stopped following the trends in Eastern Pennsylvania and tinkered much more with variety. There's a huge variety here that you don't see in eastern counties.

They played pretty well. We play Eastern Wayne (today) and that is going to be a tough match because they are a good team.

You see the hurt and pain in these kids' faces and you can just tell they've had a hard life. But when they get their Easter basket, their faces light up.

There was flooding in some various streams, but just toward the western half of the state. I don't see it as being problematic for Eastern Connecticut.

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.

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.

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.

Fran Lebowitz

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

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.

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.

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?"

Easter Road would not be one of my preferences,

Eastern Wayne has a lot of young girls on their team. So when we put pressure on their guards, we were able to force turnovers that led to easy baskets.

Eastern has been struggling a bit. It's tough to maintain that magic they had in January. If they had played the region tournament in January, they would have won it. They had a great season, but we got them at the right time.

The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.

This week here is Easter break. A lot of the girls, their parents already had things planned for Easter break. Basically, they didn't have the numbers to compete.

This was a big win for us; Aycock has been an Eastern powerhouse for years, so we are very excited about winning this one.