Christening Gift Quotes & Sayings

Funny how when life was that simple, you never really realized how lucky you were. — Jenny Downham

Our arrival there and not at a busier, more crowded airport on the other side of town was yet another example of the magical efficiency and convenience of vampire travel. — Deborah Harkness

[The Holy Spirit] is present as a whole to each and wholly present everywhere. He is portioned out impassably and participated in as a whole. He is like a sunbeam whose grace is present to the one who enjoys him as if he were present to such a one alone, and still he illuminates land and sea and is mixed with the air. Just so, indeed, the Spirit is present to each one who is fit to receive him, as if he were present to him alone, and still he sends out his grace that is complete and sufficient for all. The things that participate in him enjoy him to the extent that their nature allows, not to the extent that his power allows. — Basil The Great

I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it's getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night. — Kim Cattrall

You can't expect to conquer the world in one day, you know. All good things will come in time. — Peter Koevari

The couple fell one atop of the other, struck down, finding consolation, at last, in death. — Emile Zola

CHAPTER XXXI INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION — Charles Dickens

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger
especially at danger in the social sciences
of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture. — Rollo May

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. — Bernard Baruch

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. — Margaret Of Valois

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year ... the alienation from the sources of our strength. — Rachel Carson

I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune. — Umberto Eco

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow. — Bel Kaufman

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief ... but hope — Lloyd Alexander

My superhero name should be Density Girl. — Gini Koch