Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruth Pitter

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

Simone de Beauvoir

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Simone Weil

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

Seymour Cray

Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.

Lee Majors

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry

Thomas a Kempis

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

Thomas a Kempis

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

Thomas A. Edison

Friendship is the heaven of life.

Sharon Kay Penman

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

Shirley Jackson

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

Steven Morrissey

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Steven Pinker

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

Sun Ra

Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.

Robert Burns

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

Robert Browning

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

Robert Browning

Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

Robert Browning

Earth is crammed with heavens.

Robert Browning

For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

Robbie Williams

Hell is gone and heaven's here,there's nothing left for you to fear.

Samuel Adams

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection

T. Boone Pickens

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

Jules Renard

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Oscar Wilde

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Kathy Acker

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

Kanye West

I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into.

Mother Teresa

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Mother Teresa

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

Ramakrishna

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Liam Gallagher

I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.