Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Harry Mathews

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Jose Saramago

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

John Dryden

The lovely Thais by his side, / Sat like a blooming Eastern bride.

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Olivia De Havilland

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

Meir Kahane

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Marvin Olasky

Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing.

John McCain

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

Shana Alexander

As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

Michael Leunig

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

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.

John Calvin

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

Garrison Keillor

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

Franklin Graham

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.