Hymns Quotes
143 quotes by 130 authors
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for…
— Theodore Bikel
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It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
— Anthony Burgess
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Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
— Jeb Bush
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What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
— Hillary Clinton
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Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour…
— John Burroughs
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
— G. H. Hardy
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears…
— Khalil Gibran
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All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing,…
— Clement of Alexandria
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There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered…
— Plutarch
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered…
— Plutarch
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It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
— Frank Muir
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We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly…
— Dwight L. Moody
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If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But…
— Martha Whitmore Hickman
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The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.
— Greg Mortenson
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility…
— Hector Berlioz
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May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"
— Danny Baker
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