Famous quotes containing the words spirit of, spirit, fire, supporting and/or characters:
“The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child’s delight in bright pictures.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“...the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 14:38.
Jesus to Peter.
“The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)