Jenkin Lloyd Jones Quotes

#1. My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#2. You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

Philip Reeve

#3. The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#4. The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#5. Life is like an old-time rail journey
delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#6. While those who continuously get themselves the supply of growth, smile through life.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

Daniel Suarez

#8. I was all alone, you were all I had. Love you, you were all mine. Love me, I was yours right. I was yours right.

Tegan Quin

#9. I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#10. I can't believe Gram just said sex appeal.

Jandy Nelson

#11. Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#12. I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

Siobhan Fahey

#13. Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#14. Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#15. Pride doesn't go before a fall, it keeps you from falling.

Shane Peacock

#16. One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

Andre Maurois

#17. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#18. when in the face of writer's block, find another way to counter attack".

Shaheer Henderson

#19. The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#20. A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'

Courteney Cox

#21. You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#22. Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry ... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart ... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

John Berger

#23. The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

Quentin Crisp

#24. Avenia thinks they're battling a king. I doubt they're prepared to fight a boy who thinks childish pranks are practical strategies for war."
"Aren't they?

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#25. He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father's father?

Colum McCann

#26. My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#27. Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.

Elise Hu

#28. Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#29. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#30. Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew of him at all, knew of him only as the Nazarene peasant - the man Jesus. Such was Abraham Lincoln, the tender prophet of the gospel of good will upon earth.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#31. Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones