A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz
A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.
‐‐ Frans de Waal
'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.
‐‐ Donna McKechnie
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
‐‐ Charles Stanley
A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
‐‐ Jena Malone
A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.
‐‐ Jakob Bohme
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher
A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.
‐‐ Jakob Bohme
A Christian is the highest style of man.
‐‐ Edward Young
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
‐‐ John Updike
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
‐‐ Nelson A. Miles
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
‐‐ Leland Ryken
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
‐‐ Ellen G. White
A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.
‐‐ Monica Johnson
A Christian's example is always Jesus.
‐‐ Monica Johnson
A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.
‐‐ Tony Campolo
A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
‐‐ Pope Francis
A Christian without a God who hears them? That's not a place that one who truly serves Christ wants to find themselves.
‐‐ Monica Johnson
A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
‐‐ Randall Terry
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin
'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.
‐‐ Michel Faber
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
‐‐ Leonard Maltin
'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.
‐‐ Peter Billingsley
'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.
‐‐ Paul Pierce
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov
A chunk of seared albacore tuna, salted and peppered, then seared rare in a little oil in a hot skillet for just a minute or so per side, is the perfect addition to a savory plate of fried rice. Just slice the tuna across the grain and fan those mild, meaty slices over the top of the rice.
‐‐ Tom Douglas
A church debt is the devil's salary.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
‐‐ Pauline Phillips
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
‐‐ Adrian Rogers
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
‐‐ Claudio Hummes
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
‐‐ Henry Chadwick
A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.
‐‐ Pope Francis
A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
‐‐ Raul Julia
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
‐‐ John Berger
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
‐‐ Mel Brooks
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
‐‐ Maynard James Keenan
A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
‐‐ Julie Roberts
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
‐‐ Burt Lancaster
A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.
‐‐ Henry Giroux
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
‐‐ Bill Vaughan
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
‐‐ Lawrence Durrell
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
‐‐ Helmut Jahn
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
‐‐ Bill Dedman
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.
‐‐ Leon Krier
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
‐‐ I. M. Pei
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
‐‐ Jaime Lerner
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
‐‐ Herb Caen
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
‐‐ Herbert V. Prochnow
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
‐‐ Margaret Mead