Quotes & Sayings About Giving Up Something For Lent

I did so many bad things to your god; if he or she exists; would have been pregnant now. — M.F. Moonzajer

America is the first country ... that can actually have a bloodless revolution. — Malcolm X

But history is that rare woman who doesn't like to look at herself in the mirror. History, when she finds herself in front of one, wipes and wipes its surface at though in this way she might change her face to something better — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods. — Kathy Baker

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same. — Kurt Busch

Crushes are supposed to be fun, aren't they? They definitely aren't supposed to be so torturous. — Nina LaCour

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things." ~ Martin Scorsese — Martin Scorsese

Iran said it will give up trying to make a nuclear weapon. But it got awkward when Iran said, 'But just for Lent. We'll start again on Monday.' — Jimmy Fallon

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — Homer

We suffer these things and they fade form memory. But daily, hourly, to give up our own possessions and especially to subordinate our own impulses and wishes to to others - these are hard, hard things; and I don't think they ever get any easier.

You can strip yourself, you can be stripped, but still you will reach out like an octopus to seek your own comfort, your untroubled time, your ease, your refreshment. It may mean books or music - the gratification of the inner sense - or it may mean food and drink, coffee and cigarettes. The one kind of giving up is no easier than the other. — Dorothy Day

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions. — Henny Youngman

People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love . — Po Bronson

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross. — Greg Giraldo

Nelson's first thought is that Father Hennessey looks as bad as he does. The priest is still an intimidating presence, with his rugby player's shoulders and boxer's nose, but his eyes are shadowed and he looks as if he hasn't slept. He puts his hat on the floor and accepts a cup of coffee. 'I'm giving up coffee for Lent,' he says. 'Better make the most of it.'

'This stuff's enough to make you give up coffee for life,' says Nelson. 'I should know. I've drunk about a gallon of it.'

Father Hennessey smiles and drinks his coffee in silence for a few minutes. — Elly Griffiths

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned ... it might be better to give up television. — Michael Ramsey

Most haystacks do not even have a needle. — Lorenzo Lamas

So called "composition" becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. — Edward Weston

We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it. — Frederick Lenz

How can we not talk about family when family is all we got — Wiz Khalifa