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Quotes About Patron

St. Bride's is the journalist's church on Fleet Street. There have been seven churches on this spot. It's named for the Irish saint Brigit of Kildare, the virginal head of the old, equal-opportunity Celtic Church. She has, over the years, become the patron of babies, blacksmiths, chickens, bastards, children of abusive fathers, and printing presses. It must have been the combination of bastards and ink that brought her to hacks.
~ A.A. Gill
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
~ Ezra Pound
All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.
~ Stephen Rodrick
I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.
~ Olivia Colman
All the time he had been talking his hands had wandered over the Illustrations, as if to adjust their frames, to brush away dust- the motions of a connoisseur, an art patron.
~ Ray Bradbury
the Revolution did not produce a single piece of imaginative literature that has endured. The generation of writers who came of age during the Revolution breathed in a supercharged ideological atmosphere; they pressed themselves and their art into the service of their country, only to discover that a republic could be as demanding a patron as a wealthy prince.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
Yet, you might well be here, visiting the Yewville library as a longtime patron.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
he preferslive music to a patron's humdrum spheresIs this permitted? when u are mozart yesHe's living now? As what? a black rock starwhatever that is.
~ James Merrill
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey
~ Douglas Adams
A primitive capitalism had developed, which had quite different priorities. The lavish sacrifices had been designed to impress the gods and to enhance the patron's prestige. By the fifth century, these eastern peoples had realized that their improved trade and agriculture brought them far more wealth and status than the Vedic rites.
~ Karen Armstrong
He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand
~ Henry Austin Dobson
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
~ Ezra Pound
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
~ Ambrose Bierce
On the day of Pentecost Christianity faced the world, a new religion, without a history, without a priesthood, without a college, without a people, and without a patron. She had only her two sacraments and her tongue of fire. The latter was her sole instrument of aggression.
~ William Arthur
Carmichael seems not to have realized that his patron saint was simply not a black nationalist.
~ David Macey
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
~ Shana Alexander
Although illuminated books were an expensive luxury, it would be a mistake to suppose that all the most elaborate ones were made exclusively for royalty or for the higher ranks of the nobility.
~ Janet Backhouse
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
~ Richard Buckminster Fuller
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Es de suponer que, cuando llegue la próxima gran pandemia, es probable que se conforme a ese mismo y perverso patrón, el de la elevada inefectividad antes de los síntomas notables, que la ayudará a moverse entre ciudades y aeropuertos como un ángel de la muerte.
~ David Quammen
Es de suponer que, cuando llegue la próxima gran pandemia, es probable que se conforme a ese mismo y perverso patrón, el de la elevada infectividad antes de los síntomas notables, que la ayudará a moverse entre ciudades y aeropuertos como un ángel de la muerte.
~ David Quammen
Customer: A person who purchases a commodity or service. Client: A person who is under the protection of another.
~ Jay Abraham
the old, less rigidly organized Christianity of the Celtic Church lingered stubbornly there, even though the Roman rite had prevailed. They would accept a runaway novice, all the more when they heard him sing and play; they would provide him a patron and a house harp, and strip him of his skirts and find him chausses and shirt and cotte in payment for his music.
~ Ellis Peters
If architectural excess were a religion, Hunt was surely its patron saint, placing the most ornate of roofs over the heads of the city's elite from cradle to crypt.
~ Denise Kiernan