"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."

--

John Polkinghorne

#Years Quotes #Class Quotes #Village Quotes

“It is pain that ages us, not years.”

Source : Bonnie Prudden (1987). “Bonnie Prudden's After Fifty Fitness Guide”
“Lifeâ€”the way it really isâ€”is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
“In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.”
“Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”
“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”
“Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 315), 1895.
“I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
“We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.”

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