Sabbath Quotes - Page 5

• Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

  Marge Piercy

  Sweet, Spring, Wine

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• Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Queens, Prayer, Blessing

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• People ask me if I'm influenced by British music, and I suppose I grew up listening to mostly British music - from new wave stuff through to heavy metal. Like, when I got into metal, it was Black Sabbath. I never really got into a lot of American rock. I appreciate some of it, but not much! Most of the great new wave music was coming out of Britain, and Germany. So maybe those influences have made their way into my music, and perhaps that's why I have this connection with people in Europe. But maybe it's something cosmic.

  Chino Moreno

  People, Appreciate, Black

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

  Kip Winger

  Fun, Guitar, Hands

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• I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Civilization

  "Passover with the Bronfmans" by John Ortved, www.newyorker.com. March 25, 2013.

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• I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  Believe, Smell, Hands

  Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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• Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Jealous, Men

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• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  Rob Zombie

  Black, Firsts, Faster

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• To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

  Geezer Butler

  Roots, Band, Made

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• Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

  Geezer Butler

  Song, Rehearsal, Knocking

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• I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

  Geezer Butler

  Bass

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• When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

  Juanes

  Crazy, Rocks, Years

  "Colombian Singer Juanes Is a Savvy Businessman". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 26, 2007.

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• The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.

  William Blaikie

  Saving, Existence, Humans

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• Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.

  Tony Iommi

  Blue, Gigs, Said

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• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  Ville Valo

  Beautiful, Kids, Years

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• The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her
  banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural
  capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was
  in the days of Solomon.

  John Lindsay

  Children, Waiting, Soil

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• A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world, not by its constructed theology, not by its Sabbath services, not by its arguments to convince the intellect, but by its simple story of Jesus' love, by the Cross, the Cross--God's hammer, God's fire.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Simple, Fire

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• Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

  Joseph Hertz

  Reading, Scripture, Worship

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Evening Service for Sabbaths (p. 381),

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• Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.

  John Logan

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  James Grahame, John Logan (1823). “The poems of James Grahame, John Logan, and William Falconer”, p.153

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• In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Song, Morning, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.275, Delphi Classics

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• O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.

  Peter Abelard

  Peace, Prayer, Blessed

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• The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God has departed, and the worship of pleasure has taken its place. I am sorry to say that many of the Latter-day Saints are guilty of this. We should repent.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Sorry, Taken, Departed

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

  Billy Corgan

  Guitar, Play, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  Phil Anselmo

  Letting Go, Song, Guitar

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