Famous Quotes & Sayings

What it shows is the Easter shift is working positively for April.

Twelve years ago the Eastern European people liberated themselves and booted out the communists,

We've probably gotten 40 percent of all of the road money in Eastern Kentucky since the 1970s, which is significant, but it isn't everything. There are a lot of governors and other politicians who wouldn't give Eastern Kentucky the time of day if it weren't for their wanting dad's support.

We just put them on the ground. If you put out 8,000 eggs, you've got a huge Easter egg hunt. The eggs will probably be picked up within five minutes. It's like a vacuum.

Jared Diamond

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean ù 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.

Mary Ellen Mark

In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.

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

For many of us in government, it represented a tragic failure in national security, ... For thousands of American families -- some of them right here in eastern Connecticut-- it was a more personal day.

I'm actually figuring I'll be a semester ahead. The education program at Eastern is five years and I'll be done in four and a half.

It's in some pretty warm water in the eastern Gulf and this environment is very favorable for intensification.

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

This is what our Lord did for us. This is a time for spiritual renewal and Easter means so much to me.

Investors normally start making fund allocation from around the Easter Holiday.

Pico Iyer

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

Burl Ives

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Caroline Rhea

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

Jim Butcher

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.

Jean Charest

You can't go east and west at the same time.

Jay-Z

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

Jay Leno

Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled to prepare for Easter. Call me old-fashioned but I just like coloring the eggs.

Jay Leno

You know what I'm doing for Easter? I'm gonna be hanging with my Peeps.

Jay Leno

Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

J. K. Rowling

Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes." Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.

Hunter S. Thompson

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

Hugh Mackay

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn.

I figure it will be like working Easter Sunday.

Mark Few

I don't want to take anything away from Eastern Washington. They had a great approach.

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.

Isaac Watts

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

Irving Berlin

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.

Before the Easter vacation there was short-covering in London as next Wednesday is also the settlement day there, so after the vacation there should be more stop-loss buying.