Figures Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

— Anonymous

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

— Juvenal

“There were many who went in huddled procession, They knew not wither, But, at any rate, success or calamity Would attend all in equality.…

— Stephen Crane

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.

— Mary Hunter Austin

In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding…

— John Steinbeck

“God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions”

— Louie Giglio

We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope…

— Marge Piercy

“Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them…

— Kate Chopin

Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body…

— Frances Perkins

All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context.…

— William Macneile Dixon