Jeremiah The Prophet Quotes

#1. Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

Peter Earle

#2. Someone who tells you exactly what they think of you isn't necessarily and enemy.

Mac Fletcher: "Gates of Dawn" (in progress)

Mac Fletcher

#3. Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

Derek Blasberg

#4. And with that, the prophet Jeremiah walked away.

Anonymous

#5. Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.

A.A. Milne

#6. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family."
"Very boring, Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

#7. Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

Jeremiah

#8. Priest and wise man and prophet alike felt that their professional well-being was threatened by Jeremiah's singularity. Panicked, they plotted his disgrace. Their "law" and "counsel" and "words" were in danger of being exposed as pious frauds by Jeremiah's honest and passionate life.

Eugene H. Peterson

#9. Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

Annie Besant

#10. The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,

Jeremiah

#11. A prophet's task is to reveal the fault lines hidden beneath the comfortable surface of the worlds we invent for ourselves, the national myths as well as the little lies and delusions of control and security that get us through the day. And Jeremiah does this better than anyone.

Kathleen Norris

#12. When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

Dave Matthews

#13. I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.

Art Donovan