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  • The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th'unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display; And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.

    -Joseph Addison
      In The Spectator, no.465, 23  Aug.

  • Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because theyare few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and mournersgo about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes12:1^7.

  • Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Romans1:25.

  • Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measureinthemake ofall things, themost likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts ofthe Creationwhich come withinourobservation must

    - Stephen Hales
    Canadian lawyer and satirist. In1835 he began a series of satiric sketches  later  enlarged  as The Clockmaker;  or The Sayings  and Doings of Samuel Slick (1836). The OldJudge;  or Life in a Colony (1849) combines social history and satire.

  • The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

    -John Milton
      Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.7, l.567^8.

  • O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

    -John Milton
       Adam speaking of Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.888^95.

  • It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, and I, myself, happened to bethe creator intheyear1902† Jazz music isa style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in jazz, if one has the knowledge.

    -Jelly Roll (Ferdinand) Morton
      In Downbeat,  Aug.

  • Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man. It renders the body a more perfect instrument of the soul and at the same time makes the soul itself a finer instrument of the whole man in seeking forTruth and in transmitting it to others. In this way it helps a man to reach that End to which all other ends are subordinate, the service and the greater glory of his Creator.

    -Pius XII real name Eugenio Pacelli
      Speech to the Central School of Sports of the USA, 29 Jul.

  • All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurnme, thycreature, towhomthou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. 782

    - Mary Godwin Shelley
      Frankenstein's monster. Frankenstein, ch.10.

  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    - Elizabeth ne  e  Cady Stanton
      'Declaration of Sentiments', Seneca FallsWomen's Rights Convention,19^20 Jul.This is modelled on theAmerican Declaration of Independence of 4 Jul1776.

  • Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
      The Innocents Abroad.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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