Top 43 Somerville Quotes
#1. I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
Alan Hovhaness
#2. Philippa Somerville, standing back a little, did not withdraw her arm. In her white face, a shadow of motherly irritation appeared. 'Has no one here any sense? Be quiet and sit down. The world will look after itself for a night, without your hand on the rim.
Dorothy Dunnett
#3. Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.'
'She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing.
Dorothy Dunnett
#4. -and he flew in to her from the clutter of Somerville, the compost heap behind the Harvard Yard.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#5. all the while sneering at us deprived Northeastern Somerville kids across the fields.
Bobby S. Richardson
#6. There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.
James Green Somerville
#7. The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.
Mary Somerville
#8. It would be perfect if they could make it taste like water, but pretending that something that laden with chemicals is somehow remotely connected to fruit or sunshine or chirpy rugrats adds insult to the injury of needing to drink the damn stuff in the first place.
Ann Somerville
#9. Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.
James Green Somerville
#10. Ululation. We got animals inside of us, man. We've got all this power.
- The Son
Patrick Somerville
#11. Then print this. If you report something that irresponsible, I will kick your arse so hard you'll be able to finger yourself and clean your teeth at the same time.
Ann Somerville
#13. I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
James Green Somerville
#14. I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
James Green Somerville
#15. The craft of a master is not imposing dominance, but winning submission.
Ann Somerville
#16. My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.
Bonnie Somerville
#18. God watches over every temptation and trial that you will ever face in your life and He will never "allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able.
Robert B. Somerville
#20. While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
James Green Somerville
#22. Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.
Bonnie Somerville
#23. I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
James Green Somerville
#25. Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing ... we're not all after each other.
Bonnie Somerville
#26. No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.
Mary Somerville
#27. It is not always possible to come to an agreement before one goes to sleep but it is possible to go to sleep in a loving and peaceable manner knowing that the problem can be worked out in love at a later time.
Mary Somerville
#28. Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it.
Patrick Somerville
#29. I wished, more than anything, to forget. But what I had, more than anything, was time to remember.
Ann Somerville
#31. Our witness, one Edward Littleton, was as gay as Elton John's handbag.
Ann Somerville
#32. No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
Mary Somerville
#33. John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.
James Green Somerville
#34. I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
James Green Somerville
#35. We should look for the light, the good, the grace of Heaven wherever it might be, even admist the filth we are so quick to judge beneath us. We cannot assume we are the arbiters of righteousness. We don't shape Heaven; Heaven shapes us. Nor do we shape Hell.
Sunshine Somerville
#36. Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.
Bonnie Somerville
#37. There's a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning
Jimmy Somerville
#38. My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
James Green Somerville
#42. We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.
James Green Somerville
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