Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes de Mille

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Steel True, Blade Straight.

Carl Jung

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Billy Sunday

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Augustus Hare

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Nostradamus

In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times.

E. M. Forster

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

Gregory Maguire

It was deliciously pagan.

Douglas Reed

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

Emily Dickinson

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

Henrietta Szold

the more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...

Timothy Leary

I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.