[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in…

Between my freshman and senior years of high school in the late '90s, my father spent his evenings, weekends and vacations drilling my best…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“didn’t take long after the divorce for Anna to notice just how bad things had gotten and that they were probably going to get…

— Claire Charlins

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

— Erich Segal

My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell…

— Chuck Palahniuk

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

— Graham Greene

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

— Timothy Keller

“An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.”

— Toni Morrison

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of…

— Jean Plaidy

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…

— Bayard Taylor

“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or…

— Patrice Pavis

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution…

— Adrienne Rich

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely…

— Alexey Leonov

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

— Lord Byron

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and…

— Aldo Leopold