Finnan Quotes & Sayings

Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel. — Lee Strobel

It was a glorious supper. There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis - a celebrated Scotch dish, gentlemen, which my uncle used to say always looked to him, when it came to table, very much like a Cupid's stomach - and a great many other things besides, that I forget the names of, but very good things, notwithstanding. — Charles Dickens

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view. — Garry Trudeau

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation. — Jim DeMint

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it. — Ellis Peters

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. — Ethan Embry

Astrophil and Stella," he said, taking my hand. "The name 'Astrophil' is derived from two Greek words that, when combined, mean 'star-lover.'"

"So, what does that mean?"

Oliver tilted his head and looked up at the sky. "That Stella is the star of his life. — Ali Novak

The name of the Slough was Despond. — John Bunyan

Merry a mind is

of a weeping willow

roots raising concrete

be in

fit out

all abstract. — Antonia Perdu

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning. — Charles Spurgeon

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. — Gerald Durrell

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward. — Ralph Fiennes

Maybe there's no such thing as enough. — Rainbow Rowell

sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon ... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void. — C.S. Lewis

Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy? — Jasmine Warga

A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy. — Walter Scott

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues. — Craig Claiborne