Quotes About Eleusinian

#1. I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

James Anthony Froude

#2. It hit her like a loved one turning his back while she was falling, like some great bond that wasn't simply taken away but never truly existed.

Hugh Howey

#3. He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

Lisa Lang

#4. Your feelings and thoughts are your own and fuck them if they think they can control them.

Santino Hassell

#5. Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

Rebekah Nathan

#7. With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there were no gods at all.

Athenagoras Of Athens

#8. I have learned the power of surviving.

Philippa Gregory

#9. by giving your time and expertise and sharing them freely, the pie gets bigger for everyone.

Keith Ferrazzi

#10. Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Peter James West

#11. I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

Sandra Bullock