Quotes of: Quakers Keyword

Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

Kyan Douglas

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Bonnie Raitt

He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fel...

Bayard Rustin

What to wear on a Minnesota farm? The older farmers I know wear brown polyester jumpsuits, like factory workers. The younger ones wear jeans, but the forecast was for ninety-five degrees with heavy humidity. The wardrobe of Quaker ladies in their mid...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world dra...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about m...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano. These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkn...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

Brian De Palma

Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to b...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

Brian De Palma

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Jeremy Grantham

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I le...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

Lionel Blue

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

Kathy Baker

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Harriet Tubman

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

Richard Rodney Bennett

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Ezra Pound

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

Woody Allen

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

John Sergeant Wise

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

Richard Foster