Joyous

Famous quotes containing the word joyous:

“Oh! joyous hearts! enfired with holy flame!
Is speech thus tasseled with praise?
Will not your inward fire of joy contain:
That it in open flames doth blaze?
For in Christ’s coach saints sweetly sing,
As they to glory ride therein.”
—Edward Taylor (1645–1729)

“It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)

“The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)