Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

The Easter shift really exposed the soft underbelly of those retailers that have been struggling.

The Eastern Region has really fast skiers, but they don't have as much depth.

The Eastern game was such an emotional one that to come out of it and come over to play at Ballard in the next game is tough. I'm proud of these kids. They just let it roll off their shoulder, play hard and get the win.

The Easter effect is a reality. If you go on vacation later, you postpone your shopping.

Emily Bronte

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

All of our new items will be on the shelves next week. We have Easter items and we will have pre-made Easter baskets.

Edward Thomas

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Edie Brickell

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

Olivia De Havilland

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

Jose Saramago

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.