Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Henry David Thoreau

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

Henry David Thoreau

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

Henry David Thoreau

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!

Jill Sobule

I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven.

Jerry Falwell

Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.

Fernando Pessoa

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

Felix Mendelssohn

I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.

Federico Garcia Lorca

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

Ezra Taft Benson

God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.

Ezra Taft Benson

This nation was established by the God of heaven as a citadel of liberty. A Constitution guaranteeing those liberties was designed under the superintending influence of heaven.

Francis of Assisi

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

Francis Beaumont

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Francis Beaumont

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

Francis Atterbury

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

Frances McDormand

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

George Washington

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

George Washington

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

George Santayana

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

George Whitefield

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

George Sand

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Jean Reno

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Jerome K. Jerome

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Jim Elliot

Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.

Jim Gaffigan

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

Jim Bakker

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

Jean Houston

If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.

James A. Baldwin

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

Jacqueline Bisset

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

George Eliot

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.