Top 59 Lovejoy Quotes
#1. Death pulled Lovejoy against his chest and held him tight, gripping both cat and book as if he expected someone to try to take them from him.
Kristin Cashore
#3. Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.
Reverend Lovejoy
Matt Groening
#4. The Theory of Sexual Understanding is mine. I created it. It works between a man and a woman. It's this: Everything's up to her.
Jonathan Gash
#5. If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#6. If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#7. Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
#8. Fathers teach their best lessons to their children
by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.
Lynda Lovejoy
#9. I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#10. Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if they don't get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it is: Once a faker's found out, he dies. Truly. It always happens.
Jonathan Gash
#11. Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#12. The sheep learn to know the shepherd's voice in the ordinary days of life so that in a time of crisis it can be immediately recognized.
M. Esther Lovejoy
#13. Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.
Thomas Lovejoy
#14. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
#15. The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#16. The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#17. I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#18. The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#19. I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#20. I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#21. As evangelicals who believe that God has revealed Himself in Scripture, we come to the text not to hear our own voice, but God's voice; not our opinions, but God's truth.
Grant Lovejoy
#22. The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.
Thomas Lovejoy
#23. If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#24. The biggest problems are the damn national sectors of these developing countries. These countries think that they have the right to develop their resources as they see fit. They want to become powers.
Thomas Lovejoy
#25. As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#26. Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together.
Jonathan Gash
#27. I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#28. It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#29. I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#30. Many can argue that reality is as it is, but my experience is that the opposite is exactly true. Reality is ours for the making.
Asara Lovejoy
#31. The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And inside they'd pulled together a staggering display of Regency furniture. I've seen most of the stuff that matters. I simply stood there, gaping.
Jonathan Gash
#32. I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#33. Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World toffee-nosed attitude: The United States of America's got no culture, not deep down.
Jonathan Gash
#34. I began to enjoy myself: being apoplectic's quite invigorating.
Jonathan Gash
#36. Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#37. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.
Thomas Lovejoy
#38. I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#39. But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#40. I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you
until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life..
Paulo Coelho
#42. As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#43. I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#44. I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#45. I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#46. Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.
Thomas Lovejoy
#47. While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#48. Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a luxury hotel's plush interior, you've only had a dud replica of the real thing.
Jonathan Gash
#49. Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#50. It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#51. America's phones are bliss. Their habit of actually working is very disconcerting: Put in a coin, and speak to whoever answers. I truly hope it catches on everywhere.
Jonathan Gash
#53. Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#54. 'The Wire' fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about 'The Wire.' You either love it, or you couldn't watch it, and there is no in-between.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#55. Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#56. Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#57. I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#58. When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.
Jacqueline Kelly
#59. Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.
Kate Christensen
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