Surplice Quotes

#1. I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

Rob Sheffield

#2. Take my advice, my dear Mr Walton, and don't make too much of your poor, or they'll soon be too much for you to manage. - Come, Pet: it's time to go home to lunch. - And for the surplice, take your own way and wear it. I shan't say anything more about it.

George MacDonald

#3. The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

James Martineau

#4. Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

Victor Hugo

#5. We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

Rudyard Kipling

#6. The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

Anthony Trollope

#7. I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.

Dominic Monaghan

#8. I am not as simple as I look.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#9. What is the value of money if you have no time?

Debasish Mridha

#10. Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Johannes Tauler

#11. I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

Patti LuPone

#12. When I asked him how this cramping might affect his sword arm, he assured me it was only the narrow grip of the writing instruments that troubled him.
"If we fought with pens," he said, "I would be forced to fall upon mine.

Andrew Levkoff

#13. I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#14. It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

Yvette Nicole Brown

#15. It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.

Paul Bowles

#16. To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death - however "humane" - is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

Gary L. Francione

#17. I probably have to move out of New York. I just can't live in New York anymore.

Alec Baldwin

#18. The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature

Carl Sagan