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Quotes About Glorious

Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy Time, of clothes bereft Despite the season gusty. If he be Churl or doughty Knight, A Son of Darkness or of Light No man can tell, God bless him! But be he base or glorious Time puts it wholly up to us To dress him!
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Kaden pointed upstairs. "I am not tired either. Let us converse as well. I know many glorious lies of battle.
~ John M. Ford
It was incredibly glorious, and the ship I was on was the most amazing archaeological and engineering discovery of my lifetime, and all I could feel was melancholy.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The storm has passed." He nodded toward the clearing skies. "The stars have come out." He paused and gazed upward. "I miss them when I'm not at sea. Out on the ocean they sparkle all around you. 'Tis like standing at the gates of heaven." "Sounds glorious.
~ Elizabeth Boyle
such are the dreams of youth, too gloriously stupid to realise what cannot be done. And without those dreams, how should we ever accomplish the impossible?
~ Elizabeth Kerner
But she no longer felt sadness about it, the pressure of sorrow that had overtaken her at the table, the longing for all the Burgess kids, and the sense of the irreplaceable familiarity of her old life-that had passed the way the cramping of a stomach muscle passes, and the absence of its pain was glorious.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain.What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again.
~ Arthur Freed
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
~ Arthur Miller
Those subordinate covenants were less than the Lord's making manifest, in an especial and public manner, the grand covenant: making known something of its glorious contents, confirming their own personal interest in it, and assuring them that Christ, the great covenant head, should be of themselves and spring from their seed.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Let me chant in sacred numbers, as I strike each sounding string, Chant in sweet, melodious anthems, glorious deeds of Christ our King; He, my Muse, shall be thy story; with His praise my lyre shall ring.
~ Aurelius Prudentius Clemens
If thou shalt aspire after the glorious acts of men, thy working shall be accompanied with compunction and strife, and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings; and justly doth it come to pass towards thee, O man, that since thou, which art God's work, doest him no reason in yielding him well-pleasing service, even thine own works also should reward thee with the like fruit of bitterness.
~ bacon francis ix
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
~ John Cusack
Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
~ Orison Swett Marden
So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. —2 Corinthians 3:18
~ Gary Chapman
The voice without a body went on singing, and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more powerful.
~ Gaston Leroux
All these would be rationalizations—the thing itself was glorious.
~ Gene Wolfe
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
~ Rufus Wainwright
One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
~ Jeremy Brett
It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?'
~ Stanley Donen
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
~ Denis Diderot
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
~ Sallust
True faith energizes vocal proclamation and courageous witness concerning its glorious object: Jesus.
~ Sam Storms
What I realized about this glorious experience, years later, is that it had forever modified my expectations. The Bombers gave me a taste of what it was like to play on an excellent team.
~ Sam Walker
What a glorious morning is this!
~ Samuel Adams