Jacob Quotes - Page 3

• In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Mean, Wrestling, Angel

  "The Case for God?". BBC Documentary, September 06, 2010.

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• Woo!" Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!" Jacob and Charlie jumped. The rest of us froze. Charlie recovered, then looked at Emmett over his shoulder. "Florida winning?" "Just scored the first touchdown," Emmett confirmed. He shot a look in my direction, wagging his eyebrows like a villain in vaudville. "'Bout time somebody scored around here.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Winning, Florida, Eyebrows

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• Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)

  Alan Coren

  Dog, Shepherds, Understood

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• During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'

  Peter Golenbock

  Baseball, Running, New York

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• The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding myth which states need - but which they should move on from after a time. Major John MacBride, in a cameo performance in which he left Jacobs Mill, as he had entered it, immaculately dressed down to the white spats, told his colleagues Next time lads, don't shut yourself up behind four walls. It was good advice.

  Maurice Hayes

  Wall, Moving, White

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• Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.

  Juan Donoso Cortes

  Men, Wings, Heaven

  "Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism". Book by Juan Donoso Cortes, 1879.

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• Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Heaven, Damnation, Forests

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.26, Macmillan

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• I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

  Elle Fanning

  Vintage, Dresses, Stuff

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• I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didn’t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didn’t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist.

  Robert Newton Peck

  Mother, Water, Swim

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• My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

  Gunter Grass

  Mother, Childhood, Thumbs

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• In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me.... It was never going to end, was it?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Silence, Intuition, Vampire

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• Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

  Marc Jacobs

  Team, Artist, Doors

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• Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Saint, Flocks

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Leadership, Kindness, Angel

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them to-day, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the streets. Here they are; they wait Thy benediction. The prayer of Jacob for his sons shall be my prayer while I live, and when I die: "The angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads."

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Jesus, Prayer, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 571), 1895.

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• Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Sunset, Eye, Glasses

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1922-23, Vol. 01 of 17”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

  Gunter Grass

  Growth, Needs, Chance

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• "Hey Jacob!" I felt an unfamiliar surge of enthusiasm at his smile. I realized that I was pleased to see him. This knowledge surprised me. I smiled back, and something clicked silently into place, like two corresponding puzzle pieces. I'd forgotten how much I really liked Jacob Black.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Two, Black, Enthusiasm

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?

  Sara Gruen

  Horse, Smell, Car

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• Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth

  Stephenie Meyer

  Optimistic, Nerves, Want

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• This was why I was here. This was why I would take whatever reception waited for me when I got back. Because, underneath all the anger and the sarcasm, Jacob was in pain. Right now, it was very clear in his eyes. I didn't know how to help him, but I knew I had to try. It was more than that I owed him. It was because his pain hurt me, too. Jacob had become a part of me, and there was no changing that now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

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• Kiss me, Jacob. Kiss me, and then come back.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Kissing, Kiss Me, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]

  Stephenie Meyer

  Might, Sound, Odd

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• To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

  Peter Calthorpe

  Two, Space, Diversity

  Peter Calthorpe (2010). “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change”, p.15, Island Press

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• All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Departed, Reason

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