there were gods who needed to be worshipped and placated…

There was a time I worshipped at the altar of Rudy Martzke.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford…

— Jools Holland

Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no…

— Martin Jacques

“How good to have things like this, to be worshipped again, to pretend to have a mystery!”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of…

— John Milton

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and…

— Sebastian Horsley

The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting…

— Martin Jacques

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We aren't made to be worshipped as humans. I think that is why we see so many great artists crumble, because as humans, we…

— Scooter Braun

“He embodied what he worshipped, the exquisite in the commonplace…salt for the spirit.”

— Philip Levine

I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child…

— Beth Ditto

My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get…

— Stephen J. Cannell

“Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as a God”

— anonymise

“Everything's fit to be worshipped.”

— China Miéville

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated

— Binyavanga Wainaina