My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.
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Related Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if ... JANE AUSTEN I had talked to her Sunday evening as she was leaving, before the hurricane came in. She took some i... DOROTHY DEMBOSKI Again at Park Corner. We came up to Kensington yesterday evening and drove down here. It was a beaut... LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY To me at least was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day. ROBERT BROWNING It was evening here,
But upon earth the very noon of night. DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to ... ROB LOWE ...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills. ALICE HOFFMAN We will have a board meeting this evening where we will decide whether it is possible for us to star... ERKKI SALO The only information I have is that he was at the halfway house, and was missing when they took the ... CHERYL MILLION The gentleman lived right behind me and I heard nothing all night. It was another quiet evening. It'... DOUGLAS AKRES We've decided to put Sunday night back, without alcohol, and make it a family, family, family evenin... DAVE ECKBERG At half-past six on a Friday evening in January, Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functi... ARTHUR HAILEY Based on the '60 Minutes' segment aired Sunday evening, there was a document that was shown that app... ROB NICHOLS It was a pretty inspiring evening for the kids. BILL KELLEY Wind chills are probably going to be in the teens by the evening Thursday and possibly wind chills i... DANNY MERCER Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news ... DAVID MUIR My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I ... STEVE HARVEY We hope to have everyone back on by Tuesday evening. JAMES PETERS It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and th... PHIL DANIELS A letter containing names and addresses of People's Consultative Group (PCG) members was formally ha... INDIRA GANDHI Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sac... BIBLE It was very difficult to adapt to these difficult weather conditions. I was supposed to arrive in Ve... ISABELLA OCHICHI Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. MARY C. CROWLEY It was a particularly good evening to begin a book. TOVE JANSSON I was with my grandmother at the time and asked her, 'I think the thing blew up.' And, she was like,... DENNIS CLARK At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is hell? Come early and listen to our... UNKNOWN I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells! THOMAS MOORE The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening. KIN HUBBARD The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening. KIN HUBBARD The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening KIN HUBBARD The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening. KIN HUBBARD The soda fountain will be open all evening long. DERON ASH Not an evening dress, but a dress you can wear with boots and also dress up at night. KATRINA SZISH As of Wednesday evening, five navy vessels have picked up 118 people from the sea, while one man was... FRANS SALEM I hope everyone makes an effort to watch the programme on Sunday evening so they can appreciate the ... JAMES SIMPSON Every evening after court, we have a trial team meeting in that conference room. We discuss the even... CHUCK HARRELL Everybody just praised the Lord, ... It was a pretty moving experience that evening. RICHARD BARBER We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family. DARIUS RUCKER It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dens... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. This pivotal piece easily makes the transition from day to evening. MARLA SHAVIN He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a b... EMILY BRONTE We found some 3,600 birds dead at the farm on Friday evening. We collected samples and conducted tes... MOHAMMAD AFZAL Rise up, lads, the evening is coming. The evening star is just raising his long-awaited light in hea... CATULLUS The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. M... GEORGE COMBE The allegation is that the defendant sexually assaulted his daughter on Friday and sexually assaulte... JOE BIRKETT Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to ... EUGENE FIELD The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that th... JOHN MCGAHERN The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER Day hath put on his jacket, and around
His burning bosom buttoned it with stars. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. I was heavy with the even,
When she lit her glimmering tapers
Round the day's dead sanctities.... FRANCIS THOMPSON The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. ALEXANDER SMITH Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers. JOHN MILTON Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ... JOHN MILTON Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of
heaven, and Evening stooped down to unlo... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW But when eve's silent footfall steals
Along the eastern sky,
And one by one to earth reveals
... JOHN KEBLE How gently rock yon poplars high
Against the reach of primrose sky
With heaven's pale candles ... JEAN INGELOW The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The plou... THOMAS GRAY When day is done, and clouds are low,
And flowers are honey-dew,
And Hesper's lamp begins to g... GEORGE CROLY Hath thy heart within thee burned,
At evening's calm and holy hour? STEPHEN GREENLEAF BULFINCH In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish ENGLISH PROVERB One by one the flowers close,
Lily and dewy rose
Shutting their tender petals from the moon. CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death. JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER And whiter grows the foam,
The small moon lightens more;
And as I turn me home,
My shado... ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of... THOMAS MOORE It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour when ... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
... JAMES BEATTIE O how grandly cometh Even,
Sitting on the mountain summit,
Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) But she still had a soft spot for ?The Miracle Worker. She said she and Anne Bancroft ?created an ev... PATTY DUKE YOU can wear him to anything. From casual to evening. JIMMY FALLON Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridicu... KARL LAGERFELD All of them have been working on this since May of last year and I think this evening shows the resu... BARBARA KELLER We'll see how these go, and if demand is high, we'll start offering our semester long classes in the... AMY BARR I don't have a car. The bus leaves in the evening, they can only see me in the morning ? and there's... ANGELA JASTER The evening is being held primarily as a get-together for our members after the summer break, ROYAL SOCIETY He came on Saturday. Saturday evening there was the Town Ball. Frau Schwarz gave me a box, so I abso... EVA BRAUN Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one even... TOM HOLT The winter evening settles down / With smell of steaks in passage ways. T.S. ELIOT Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! LEWIS CARROLL I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep... LILLIAN CARTER The numbers just weren't there this evening, BOB BARR The domino effect just continued on into the evening with the delays and cancellations. BRENDA GEOGHAGAN If this motion is approved this evening, based on the previous motion that Trustee Sebby did re... BILL MUELLER He called me around 7.30pm on Thursday evening and said that his plane crashed somewhere in the fore... TIBOR DOBSON I came about something of what no sportsman can be insured of. This is a trauma. On Thursday evening... VITALI KLITSCHKO It's an onerous task, but we should finish it by this evening. BIJAY KUMAR Evening After a Storm, FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH Some enchanted evening, / you may see a stranger / Across a crowded room. OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II [Gill was the final inductee in an evening that ran long because of rambling introductions, excessiv... VINCE GILL We'll see. If I don't get an answer before this evening, I'll take 25 pills and gently fall asleep i... EVA BRAUN I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be; the waves that plunged along ... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. GROUCHO MARX He did not sign the 300 items that evening. CHARLES BRETZ This is the first year that all of the clothing companies have a collection of evening separates, CAROLYN MOSS An Evening in Margarititaville, MAIN STREET This year, we'll be holding the smoker a little later in the evening then we did last year. DOMINIC GUIDA
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MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I... MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -... MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ... MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is... MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time. MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ... MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T... MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ... MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ... MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can... MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo... MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'... MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and... MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi... MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can... MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y... MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived... MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki... MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai... MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother. MAYA ANGELOU We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. MAYA ANGELOU