Preachers Kids Quotes & Sayings

What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something. — Randi Rhodes

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points. — Andy Grove

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places. — Joel Osteen

These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that. — Christine Jennings

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it. — Zubin Mehta

No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me — Alexandre Dumas-fils

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that. — Joel Osteen

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids ... my older parents and my preachers and everybody. — Terry Bradshaw

I've seen a lot of people getting into Jazzmasters because of me, and, well, people don't know what they're in for. I mean if you're looking for endless sustain, you're going to have to get it out of your hands (laughs). Because a saxophonist gets it out of his breath. You've got to work for it on the guitar - it means you have to pull it out of yourself, otherwise, what are you doing? You end up playing a lot of noise or scale exercises. — Tom Verlaine

As one becomes aware of the decline of violence, the world begins to look different. The past seems less innocent; the present less sinister. — Steven Pinker

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. — Voltaire

Many Christians still believe that salvation can be lost. Preachers still preach it, scholars still write about it, and well-meaning parents still warn their kids about it. "You'd better be careful and you better behave. If you go too far in your sin, God just might write you off - permanently. — Will Davis Jr.

Preachers' kids who gravitate toward ministry are commodities. I hire all I can. We see church differently than everybody else. — Andy Stanley