Reverends Quotes
38 quotes by 33 authors
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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly…
— Julian Bond
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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the…
— Thomas Traherne
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex…
— Bill Bryson
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I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America
— Bing Crosby
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New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of…
— Bill Maher
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Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.
— Jerry Moran
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I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend — I got 'em all. But I don't want…
— Mike Tyson
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I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland
— Gerry Adams
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way…
— Don DeLillo
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The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
— Isaac Watts
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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately,…
— Anatole France
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But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend…
— Barack Obama
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The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society…
— Barack Obama
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For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only…
— Barack Obama
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When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before His face, before…
— John of Kronstadt
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Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so…
— Blaise Pascal
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Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and…
— David Limbaugh
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Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always…
— Will Ferrell
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Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the…
— Daniel D. Palmer
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