Parish Quotes

54 Parish quotes by 46 unique authors

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! — John Heywood
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. — Denis McDonough
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
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
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish — John Keble
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
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
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
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. — Martin Scorsese
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
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
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
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
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
I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest. — David Hope
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
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
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
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
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
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. — Gilbert White
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. — Gilbert White
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. — Gilbert White
I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest. — Justin Welby
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: