Top 27 Mennonite Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Mennonite

#1. I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door.

Beverly Lewis

#2. Those Mennonite villages in Russia are my heritage, but not my world. The world I feel and sense in my bones is the bush of northern Saskatchewan, of prairie Canada.

Rudy Wiebe

#3. I do not run late. Growing up on a farm, you're just not late when it's time to do chores or go to work. I grew up Mennonite, and so that work ethic and timeliness was just ingrained in me from a very young age.

Greg Brenneman

#4. Nic loves Elf's odd requests, each one is like a holiday for him ... and he's not a Mennonite, which is important
in a man
for Elf. Mennonite men have wasted too much of her time already, trying to harvest her soul and shackle her to shame.

Miriam Toews

#5. Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Victoria Moran

#6. What's a Mennonite?" Vance asked. "Amish with blenders.

Christopher Moore

#7. I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Miriam Toews

#8. I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

Miriam Toews

#9. The new people were something else before they were white - Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish - and if all our national hopes have any fulfillment, then they will have to be something else again. Perhaps

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. 'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

Miriam Toews

#11. I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

Dan Quisenberry

#13. My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

Beverly Lewis

#14. You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

Nick Hornby

#15. There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

Shane Claiborne

#16. Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.

David A.R. White

#17. I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.

Eugene O'Neill

#18. I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Dean Koontz

#19. I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

Nicolas Cage

#20. I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

Vincent Van Gogh

#21. Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

Greg Gutfeld

#22. And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they're feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.

David Maraniss