Sunday Quotes

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever"

"I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia"

"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday"

John Tesh, Musician

"My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside"

James Daly, Actor

"I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up"

Peter Tork, Musician

"I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"But I can't wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I'm really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It's been a wonderful year"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on"

Edward W. Howe

"In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there"

Dana Delany, Actress

"The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"I spent a year in that town, one Sunday"

George Burns, Comedian

"I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort"

Stephen Leacock, Economist

"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug"

John Hunter

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

Charles Moore

"I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God"

James Green Somerville

"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check"

Mike Epps, Comedian

"There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon"

Pete Rozelle, Celebrity

"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family"

Darius Rucker, Musician

"My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped"

Verne Troyer, Actor

"After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing"

John C. Hawkes, Novelist

"Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers"

Charles Buck

"I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks"

Adam Faith, Musician

"We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday"

Art Rooney, Businessman

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