Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

Alan Bennett

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Al Smith

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

Al Pacino

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

Dave Barry

You're not allowed to park a truck in your driveway. You're not allowed to work on your house on Sunday. The people who enforce these laws are nuts. After I wrote a column on this, I got I don't know how many letters from Coral Gables homeowners, story after story after story, wonderfully horrible stories. And the venom they felt for their own government!

Dave Barry

There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

Carl Sagan

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

Carole King

I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun...

Carlos Santana

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

C. J. Mahaney

Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

Cheryl Ladd

I remember having my own apartment and a little used white Mustang car and $3000 in the bank, driving down Sunset Boulevard thinking, 'Wow, it doesn't get any better than this!'

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

Charles Baudelaire

From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

Beth Moore

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

Beth Moore

Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned.

Bob Marley

Rise up this mornin', Smile with the risin' sun.

Charles Kuralt

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

Beryl Bainbridge

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Chad Pennington

Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.

Cecilia Bartoli

Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.

Carol Vorderman

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.

Agnes Repplier

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

Carl Hiaasen

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

Calista Flockhart

I just can't eat without my sunglasses,

Vince Young

Wow, I'm shocked. Supposed to be Sunshine City. I'm shocked.

Brande Roderick

I always wear SPF 30 sunscreen under my make-up, and I also wear a hat because taking care of my skin is important to me.

Dale Jarrett

After the sun sets, there's no more problem.

Duane Michals

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

Donald Miller

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

J. D. Salinger

It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.