Godfather And Godmothers Quotes & Sayings

They were old Chimes, trust me. Centuries ago, these Bells had been baptized by bishops: so many centuries ago, that the register of their baptism was lost long, long before the memory of man, and no one knew their names. They had had their Godfathers and Godmothers, these Bells (for my own part, by the way, I would rather incur the responsibility of being Godfather to a Bell than a Boy), and had their silver mugs no doubt, besides. But Time had mowed down their sponsors, and Henry the Eighth had melted down their mugs; and they now hung, nameless and mugless, in the church-tower. — Charles Dickens

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose. — Paul Park

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it. — Nicholas Lore

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. — James Agate

How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don't even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along. — Peter Heller

Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer. — Ole Hallesby

grief never leaves, it just mutates — Skip Horack

I hate the past - especially my own past. — Karl Lagerfeld

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz