Znamensky Cathedral Quotes & Sayings

Twenty two year old Connie Jones, who had boarded in the home of charismatic Methodist and pacifist Ormond Burton, was a member of the No More War movement and the Christian Pacifist Society. She first attended the Friday night public meetings at which the pacifists argued their case in 1941. She stepped onto the podium, stating, "the Lord Jesus Christ tells us to love one another," and was promptly arrested by Wellington's chief inspector of police. Charged with obstruction under the Emergency Regulations, she was sentenced to three months' hard labour with harsh conditions at the Point Halswell Reformatory - an experience that did nothing to dampen her commitment to pacifism. — Barbara Brookes

What manner of country was this that worshiped children to the extent that they were treated as royalty? — Jude Deveraux

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints. — Henry David Thoreau

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will. — Cybill Shepherd

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. — Plato

he was evidently in a state of suppressed exultation — Anonymous

Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid. — Hilary McKay

(on not being able to keep still): I have to move. I always want to engage the audience, and hopefully they are going to send some energy back — Blake Lewis