Sunday Quotes - Page 28

• This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

  Margaret Atwood

  Childhood, Feelings, Special

  Margaret Atwood (1999). “The Edible Woman”, Emblem Editions

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• The way she told it, she was such a criminal even the most God-fearing church ladies got bored of reporting on her; she did the marketing on Sunday, dropped by any church she liked or none at all, was a feminist (which Mrs. Asher sometimes confused with communist), a Democrat (which Mrs. Lincoln pointed out practically had "demon" in the word itself), and, worst of all, a vegetarian (which ruled out any dinner invitations from Mrs. Snow).

  Kami Garcia

  Confused, Snow, Bored

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• The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

  Spider Robinson

  Dirty, Tired, Boys

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• How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Reading, Technology, Reality

  Alastair Reynolds (2012). “Blue Remembered Earth”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Children, Couple, Moving

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• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  Frances Farmer

  Beautiful, Christmas, Stars

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people.

  Olive Wyon

  Happiness, Christian, Offering

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• We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

  Darius Rucker

  Family, Kids, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Sad, Flower, Self

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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• Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize. . . . Man has asked for truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time.

  Marilla Ricker

  Zero, Hero, School

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• He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.

  Ahmad ibn Rustah

  Christian, Friday, Kings

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• The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Morning, Prayer, Church

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• With Halloween on a Monday this year, that gives people a chance to have parties on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

  Suzanne Smith

  Friday, Monday, Halloween

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• ...And Sunday's the one day I rest, give thanks, and bless.

  Special Ed

  Rap, Giving, Hip Hop

  Song: Ready 2 Attack, Album: Legal

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• I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever do to true religion except by mistake! As to getting the law of the land to touch our religion, we earnestly cry, `Hands off! Leave us alone.' Your Sunday bills and all other forms of the act-of-Parliment religion seem to me to be all wrong. Give us a fair field and no favor, and our faith has no cause to fear. Christ wants no help from Caesar.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Mistake, Hands

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• I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.

  Bill Cowher

  Pride, Reality, New Orleans

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• The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

  Phil Donahue

  Morning, Fun, House

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• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  Parker Stevenson

  Beach, Water, Sailing

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• It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

  Albert Camus

  Back To Work, Stranger, Buried

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.24, Vintage

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• In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!

  Carlo Collodi

  Country, Vacation, Land

  Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.229, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?

  Azar Nafisi

  Children, Giving Up, Pain

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• Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

  Mel Brooks

  Friday, Monday, Fishing

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• Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

  Lynn Johnston

  Inspiring, Mom, Stay Strong

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• There is good reason to make our decision now to serve the Lord. On this Sunday morning, when the complications and temptations of life are somewhat removed, and when we have the time and more of an inclination to take an eternal perspective, we can more clearly evaluate what will bring us the greatest happiness in life. We should decide now, in the light of the morning, how we will act when the darkness of night and when the storms of temptation arrive.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Morning, Night, Light

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• Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

  Philip J. Davis

  Typical, Weekdays, Statistics

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