Fiddler On The Roof Tevye Quotes & Sayings

So I lay on your breast for an obscure hour Feeling your fingers go Like a rhythmic breeze Over my hair, and tracing my brows, Till I knew you not from a little wind: - I wonder now if God allows Us only one moment of his keys. If only then You could have unlocked the moon on the night, And I baptized myself in the light Of your love; we both have entered then the white Pure passion, and never again. — D.H. Lawrence

Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten. — Giovanni Ruffini

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations. — Clive James

The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives. — Bob Sorge

He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more — Walter Scott

Six: everyone - and when I say everyone, I mean absolutely,positively everyone, from the librarians to the students to the staff to the oldest, cruiser janitor - was piss-down-their-legs scared of Miles Richter.
Of all the crazy things I heard about East Shoal, that was the only thing I couldn't believe. — Francesca Zappia

He was ashamed of baiting the man, realizing that the absurdity of the story rested in the immaturity of the attitude combined with the sophisticated method of its narration. — F Scott Fitzgerald

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives. — Rosamund Lupton

The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon. — George Herbert

When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose. — Maureen Dowd

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks. — Carl Andre

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it.
STATE OF WONDER — Ann Patchett

Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette felt it deeply but recovered. — Victor Hugo

And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God. — Richard J. Foster

They want you or they don't — Elliot Smith