James Green Somerville quote: "I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me."

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah...
JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE

There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also peo...
JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what am...
JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE

It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
THOMAS SOMERVILLE

Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but w...
BONNIE SOMERVILLE

I grew up in a family of firemen and cops.
BONNIE SOMERVILLE

I'll be on the convoys taking the supplies to the infantry,
DAVID SOMERVILLE

Josh just blew the ceiling off the place,
DAVID SOMERVILLE

Josh just blew the ceiling off the place.
BUD SOMERVILLE

He called from Nashville right during David's party. They probably talked for a half-hour on the pho...
BUD SOMERVILLE

Josh and Ryan used to hang out all the time together. Ryan went into the Air Force, and Josh went in...
BUD SOMERVILLE

Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. T...
PATRICK SOMERVILLE

It was Frank's most successful car, so he kept it all this time.
HAMISH SOMERVILLE

Once Bobby was in front, he was so smooth that he didn't give me any room to get near him.
HAMISH SOMERVILLE

There was a hint of fall in the air, so it felt like a Grand Prix. And, with Bobby there, you feel l...
HAMISH SOMERVILLE

Can't think of anything to say. Feeling a bit nervy. Kinda like a bloke who has just asked the girl ...
JAMES GREEN

There are a number of different reasons why. The main one is that Chinese telecommunications compani...
JAMES GREEN

They've put him on some new medicine, so we hope he's going to be OK now. Even though he's not near ...
JAMES GREEN

It was a tale of two halves. You look at the shots we took. In the first half we were 13-of-25. In t...
JAMES GREEN

Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the souther...
JAMES GREEN

We're working closely with the Shanghai government, but obviously we're not there yet.
JAMES GREEN

The Soviet Union model of what a Communist country is supposed to look like doesn't work for China. ...
JAMES GREEN

Well, let me ask this, ... If he's the king, why wasn't he hired first?
JAMES GREEN

If it seems I'm upset, it's because I am, ... When does the process start that the shift will come?
JAMES GREEN

Not everyone can do this job. I've seen people try and fail. Whatever Sherrie does, she gives 100 pe...
JAMES GREEN

I think there is an acknowledgement that it is slow and that it needs to be resolved but there is a ...
JAMES GREEN

I know it's him, ... I know it's him.
JAMES GREEN

What happens with condominiums is people end up buying them as investments and renting them as apart...
JAMES GREEN

If you want to make Shanghai a world class business center, you need more access and connectivity.
JAMES GREEN

The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.
WILLIAM C. SOMERVILLE

Ignorance and arrogance dominates this world.
NOAH WERNER SOMERVILLE

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&...
PHILIP GREEN

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
PHILIP GREEN

You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ...
PHILIP GREEN

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I...
PHILIP GREEN

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN

They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex...
PHILIP GREEN

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
EVA GREEN

You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It&...
ADAM GREEN

I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know t...
JANE GREEN

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
PHILIP GREEN

Every transportation department at schools thought that there should be a bike buddy program. They t...
LOGAN GREEN

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you k...
CEELO GREEN

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
JOHN GREEN

It's not going to be a six-month situation. We have to prepare for the duration.
AL GREEN

GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement...
AL GREEN

This is a ministry that has been given to me.
AL GREEN

Texas was settled by people who were willing to fence in their property and protect it. We take seri...
AL GREEN

It's you I want, but it's Him that I need.
AL GREEN

There's a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from be...
AL GREEN

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't ...
AL GREEN

I'm thankful for every moment.
AL GREEN

Some times in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow.But, if we are wise, we know that ther...
AL GREEN

This agreement recognizes the contributions our employees make and at the same time allows GM of Can...
AL GREEN

I hear from broadcasters pretty often. Their ad revenue is down.
GENE GREEN

I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, 'Bro, get me out of her...
DRAYMOND GREEN

Groins are very difficult because they affect the throwing motion, ... It could be more than one wee...
AHMAN GREEN

We have to keep our mistakes to a minimum and not worry about what happened the last three games, .....
AHMAN GREEN

We just stuck to our game plan and ran right at them, ... We knew we couldn't run away from them. We...
AHMAN GREEN

Nothing with me has been different, just our situation, ... I don't worry about where I start up at,...
AHMAN GREEN

I'm a competitive guy, and I can't wait to do battle in Halo 2 with my fans,
AHMAN GREEN

This entire experience, particularly the negotiation session, has helped me identify my strengths an...
AHMAN GREEN

If we have to, we have to, ... We don't know yet. But we have to be ready to go regardless of the fa...
AHMAN GREEN

You'd think the big news in the locker-room this week was the start of the preseason, but all everyo...
AHMAN GREEN

His focus is definitely there. Nothing he does ceases to amaze me,
AHMAN GREEN

I never thought of it as something I've got to get out of my system,
AHMAN GREEN

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they do...
AL GREEN

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
AL GREEN

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
AL GREEN

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain ...
AL GREEN

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.
AL GREEN

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
AL GREEN

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Ma...
AL GREEN

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to thi...
AL GREEN

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
AL GREEN

As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever sa...
ADAM GREEN

I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the ...
ADAM GREEN

A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around ...
ADAM GREEN

When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my inte...
ADAM GREEN

Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that mo...
ADAM GREEN

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-...
ADAM GREEN

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to ...
ADAM GREEN

I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I go...
ADAM GREEN

I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
ADAM GREEN

The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My pu...
ADAM GREEN

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the fir...
ADAM GREEN

With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the ...
ADAM GREEN

Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it...
ADAM GREEN

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera sh...
ADAM GREEN

When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'...
ADAM GREEN

I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and mee...
ADAM GREEN

I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parent...
ADAM GREEN

Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't ca...
ADAM GREEN

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back...
ADAM GREEN

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
ADAM GREEN

My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The T...
ADAM GREEN

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.
DAVID GREEN

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.
EVA GREEN

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
JOHN GREEN

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
JOHN GREEN

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
JOHN GREEN

Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, a...
JOHN GREEN

you can never love someone as much as you miss them.
JOHN GREEN

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
JOHN GREEN

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his hea...
JOHN GREEN

Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again an...
JOHN GREEN

I realize that a lot of business leaders may disagree with me, but I truly believe that God belongs ...
DAVID GREEN

I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I...
JANE GREEN

Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody gett...
DRAYMOND GREEN

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.
HANK GREEN

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines
HANK GREEN

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever presen...
HANK GREEN

Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.
HANK GREEN

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
HANK GREEN

Don't worry about looking cool. Do you because you are awesome.
HANK GREEN

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.
HANK GREEN

Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a mem...
HANK GREEN

The infernal day star is shining its radiation down upon us. I can feel it giving me cancer.
HANK GREEN

You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.
HANK GREEN

I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human char...
HANK GREEN

...the world is complicated and it deserves to be understood complexly.
HANK GREEN

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.
DAVID GREEN

Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN

I'm so excited about our lineup, ... We had said we were going to cut it back this year. But with Th...
ALAN GREEN

We've been steady, just like we have been. It's about putting the pieces together.
ALAN GREEN

There was no indication of any violence. They had been in for well over an hour when this man sudden...
ALAN GREEN

compliant from the outset.
ALAN GREEN

We've lost a colleague and many people have lost a friend. This is a tragedy.
ALAN GREEN

Leicester 0, Wimbledon 1, Football minus 1.
ALAN GREEN

From the time the idea of the song came to me it's been my vision that the song help people to see t...
ALAN GREEN

I was not at the first Million Man March, because at that time I didn't see the value in going. But ...
ALAN GREEN

With the death toll still rising, it will take untold millions of dollars to get back some semblance...
ALAN GREEN

There is nothing at this stage to suggest there is anything within the premises.
ALAN GREEN

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, b...
FLORENCE GREEN

I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they...
FLORENCE GREEN

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.
EVA GREEN

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have...
EVA GREEN

I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemploy...
GENE GREEN

I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardw...
CEELO GREEN

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours sho...
JOHN GREEN

We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to pla...
BENNY GREEN

It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good i...
EVA GREEN

I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a ...
EVA GREEN

That three-pointer put us up by two. That's what got us over the hump.
AARON GREEN

Colby almost turned it over twice, but he stayed with it. It was a great win.
AARON GREEN

It had a huge effect on the game. Coach was mad, and he wanted us to get better. But we couldn't do ...
AARON GREEN

It was a big game and we didn't come ready to play. I don't know what it was, but we weren't prepare...
AARON GREEN

I had to throw around a few dollars here and there to play. My doctor didn't want me to play, but ph...
AARON GREEN

The glasses were fine in the beginning, it was like you knew they were there, but they didn't bother...
AARON GREEN

This is so gratifying because of how we've come together. Everybody wants it.
ABBY GREEN

Whoever comes out and plays the best can do it.
ABBY GREEN

It's always tough to go up against him. He's been my most favorite coach to play for. I wish he were...
ABBY GREEN

Nothing was falling the first three quarters. I guess the free-throw line was the best way I could c...
ABBY GREEN

I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so ha...
JOHN GREEN

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere ...
ADOLPH GREEN

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting ...
ADOLPH GREEN

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort...
ADOLPH GREEN

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.
ADOLPH GREEN

It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revu...
ADOLPH GREEN

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen...
ADOLPH GREEN

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
ADOLPH GREEN

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most...
JOHN GREEN

This represents a threat to an open Internet.
ADAM GREEN

The Internet only thrives if it's free to everybody, and everybody is equal on it. The moment that t...
ADAM GREEN

Austin has headliners like Dell, Motorola and UT that would benefit greatly from nonstop service to ...
ADAM GREEN

Austin is especially attractive to us because there are significant business, political and cultural...
ADAM GREEN

The par-3 14 was a big hole for me. I dropped a 15- or 20-foot putt for par. Basically, in my last e...
ADAM GREEN

I played pretty good and made some good pars. I also only had two bogeys, so I played well.
ADAM GREEN

Fifth place isn't bad for our first state showing. We have a really good chance next year I think. I...
ADAM GREEN

It feels good. I didn't really expect to make All-Ohio Second Team, but I played good today so I gue...
ADAM GREEN

It got our attention. Before that, in our minds we weren't sure if we'd make it. It made me want to ...
ADAM GREEN

Even at a time when privacy rights are under attack on multiple fronts, the idea that someone can go...
ADAM GREEN

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
EVA GREEN

Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. ...
EVA GREEN

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW GREEN

I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and wor...
JOHN GREEN

Headline?" he asked.
"'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said.
"'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Need...
JOHN GREEN

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN

Van Houten,
I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer...
JOHN GREEN

Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the...
JOHN GREEN

Sometimes people don’t understand
the promises they’re making when they make them,” I sai...
JOHN GREEN

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said.

"And it is my privilege and my resp...
JOHN GREEN

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt...
JOHN GREEN

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.

Hazel Grace, tell me I hav...
JOHN GREEN

What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN

I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish" he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.
"I...
JOHN GREEN

I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.
JOHN GREEN

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...
JOHN GREEN

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
JOHN GREEN

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection o...
JOHN GREEN

He’s not that smart.”

“She’s right,” Augustus says. “It’s just that most re...
JOHN GREEN

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a tor...
JOHN GREEN

A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and di...
JOHN GREEN

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasu...
JOHN GREEN

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. W...
JOHN GREEN

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
JOHN GREEN

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.

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James Green Somerville

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.

James Green Somerville

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