Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

Louisa May Alcott

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

Louisa May Alcott

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

Louisa May Alcott

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…

John Flanagan

Face your fears, Halt had always thought him, and more often than not they fade like mist in the sunshine

Jonathan Glazer

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

Jonathan Haidt

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Kate Winslet

Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

Katarina Witt

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

P. C. Cast

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

Paullina Simons

The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still...that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning.

Martin Amis

The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of me. Scratching my hair, with soft whistles, with lips aquiver, I frown over Sunset at Blandings.

Pope Benedict XVI

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

Pope Francis

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Peter Mayle

Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

Pete Townshend

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

Paulo Coelho

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Peter Matthiessen

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

Pope Francis

Sunday is the Lord’s Day. Let us find time to be with him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moonlight is sculpture.

Mother Teresa

To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.

Jim Rohn

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

George MacDonald

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.

Ellen Hopkins

When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.

Elizabeth Goudge

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?

Elizabeth Gilbert

I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

Jimmy Fallon

During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, 'We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.' This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.