Oxford Quote by Lionel Blue Download Open image “I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.” — Lionel Blue ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oxford
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness. — Kyan Douglas Copy Share Image
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience… — William Penn Copy Share
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm extraordinarily lucky to have so many friends across such a diverse group of people. One day I'll be at Oxford, the next at… — David Tang Copy Share Image
What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not. — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford]… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
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