Parish Quotes
54 Parish quotes by 46 unique authors
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But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
— John Heywood
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Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.
— Denis McDonough
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Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush…
— Nigel Calder
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Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish
— John Keble
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent…
— Lady Gregory
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Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of…
— John Polkinghorne
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I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of…
— Paul Ryan
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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
— Martin Scorsese
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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he…
— Charles Dickens
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Can you just saw his arm off while we're here and get me loose? (Amanda) I could do that, but he needs his more. I'd…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning…
— Rick Yancey
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And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben…
— Rick Yancey
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I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.
— David Hope
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I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I…
— David Hope
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Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way…
— Ron Shock
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You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After…
— Donald Wuerl
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives,…
— Hannah Kent
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The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who…
— Richard Morris
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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
— Gilbert White
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
— Gilbert White
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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
— Gilbert White
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I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.
— Justin Welby
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I look upon the whole world as my parish.
— John Wesley
Who Wrote These Parish Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 54 Parish Quotes, led by these top contributors: