Jukebox Quote by Tom Waits

“The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.”

— Camille Paglia

I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to…

— Elvis Costello

I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.

— Sheila Walsh

I was an altar boy in an incredible monastery that was attached to a rectory. The theater of the church is the most incredible…

— Bobby Cannavale

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also…

— Bruce Springsteen

There was a time I worshipped at the altar of Rudy Martzke.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his…

— Don Rickles

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

“Then it hits me. I’m actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings…

— Mary Karr

I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over…

— Harriet Tubman

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime…

— Anne Sexton

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

— Hank Williams