Stained Quotes
156 Stained quotes by 144 unique authors
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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the…
— Danny Boyle
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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during…
— Julie Burchill
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than…
— Adrienne Clarkson
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest,…
— William Blake
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In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass.
— Heather Nova
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There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.
— James Ellis
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There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained…
— Thomas Paine
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The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive…
— John Gibson Paton
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The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
— Robert McAfee Brown
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses,…
— Martin Luther
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Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower…
— Judith Wright
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Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious…
— Richard Dawkins
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And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked up at me…
— Stephen Colbert
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I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't…
— Julie Christie
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At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were…
— Michael Persinger
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The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.
— Diana Butler Bass
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A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me…
— Blaise Cendrars
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see…
— Ciaran Carson
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Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require…
— Forrest Church
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We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power and glory.…
— Ernst Junger
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Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man;…
— William Henry Hudson
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I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down…
— Edvard Munch
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Who Wrote These Stained Quotes
144 authors contributed a total of 156 Stained Quotes, led by these top contributors: