Asbury Quotes

#1. My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. - Author: Francis Asbury

#2. The whole of life is like that now. It's even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you to read back. Originality has been used up. And yet faith in one's uniqueness dies hard. - Author: Tom Stoppard

#3. We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God. - Author: Francis Asbury

#4. Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11! - Author: Henry Rollins

#5. Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar. - Author: Shane Black

#6. Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused. - Author: Stephen Crane

#7. Children's laughter - carefree, giddy, maniacal - filled the woods. A nightmare version of some game from his youth. - Author: Blake Crouch

#8. Get the hell off the Beach in Asbury Park and get out. You're done. It's 4:30 PM. You've maximized your tan. Get off the beach. Get in you cars and get out of those areas. - Author: Chris Christie

#9. Brave men don't fight for nothing, like children.' protested Howell's (Major Joe Howell) friend. 'We want to know what we are fighting about. If we are wrong we may apologize. - Author: Herbert Asbury

#10. I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park. - Author: Peter Noone

#11. The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has not done anything wrong, but has merely demonstrated his smartness. - Author: Herbert Asbury

#12. Respectable," said Asbury. "Ah! There is death in that word."680 - Author: Henry H. Knight

#13. You pay your money and you takes your choice. - Author: Herbert Asbury

#14. My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited. - Author: David Cassidy

#15. Some cities are really boring and straight. - Author: Johnny Marr

#16. My desire is to live more to God today than yesterday, and to be more holy this day than the last. - Author: Francis Asbury

#17. The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. - Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

#18. Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-"
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered. - Author: Rick Riordan

#19. Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do. - Author: Francis Asbury

#20. As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion. - Author: Rudy Giuliani

#21. Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at least one duel; most of them had engaged in several. - Author: Herbert Asbury

#22. Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so! - Author: Francis Asbury

#23. Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. - Author: Daniel J. Boorstin

#24. God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe. - Author: Francis Asbury

#25. I'm pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while. - Author: Jon Lester

#26. Elizabeth sank into the leather wing chair in the library of her mind and began to read. - Author: L.J.M. Owen

#27. There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen. - Author: Amy Lee

#28. Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. - Author: William Shakespeare

#29. After supper they saw Kaluka to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Asbury. The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak waste that made the Norse sagas sad. - Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

#30. I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order to achieve this goal. - Author: Miguel Quinteros

#31. We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works. - Author: Francis Asbury

#32. It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending. - Author: Mitch McConnell

#33. O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty. - Author: Francis Asbury

#34. Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it! - Author: Geraldine Ferraro

#35. When Springsteen meets a future girlfriend on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, he delivers this electric introduction: "She was Italian, funny, a beatific tomboy, with just the hint of a lazy eye, and wore a pair of glasses that made me think of the wonders of the library. - Author: Bruce Springsteen

#36. it's not enough to have and do, you have to really care, really see. Because you have and others don't or can't - you can never get so wrapped in your own pain and circumstances, to be deaf and blind to it. - Author: Eve Asbury

#37. I think, Charlie, you have talent. I do. But I don't think you'll get far until you examine yourself and study.Until you let yourself be your subject. That's the exquisiteness of youth: you are allowed the luxury of vanity, of self-examination. Take it! Don't be ashamed of yourself. - Author: Kathleen Glasgow

#38. Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that's changed everything. - Author: Mike Pence

#39. Mischa, we take comfort in knowing there is no God. That you are not enslaved in Heaven, made to kiss God's ass forever. What you have is better than Paradise. You have blessed oblivion. I miss you every day. - Author: Thomas Harris

#40. Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood. - Author: Danny DeVito