Mendelssohns Quotes & Sayings

A Strange Eastern Light "During the time of King Herod, Wise Men from the east came and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.'" - Matthew 2:1 — Seth Grahame-Smith

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. — Henry David Thoreau

How blessings brighten as they take their flight. — Edward Young

Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure ... — Neil Gaiman

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one — Garry Kasparov

Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too — Heinrich Heine

I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west. — Jason Reeves

I'd like to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it's out. — Piet Hein

There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.' — Vance Havner

Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children. — Caitlin Moran

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy. — Shirley Bassey

You were amazing." He — Nora Sakavic

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood. — Alice Walker