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The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. -- Wynton Marsalis
The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples. -- Pablo Neruda
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. -- John Betjeman
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn. -- Frank Muir
This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will." Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989). -- Ephrem the Syrian
Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and their origins there is something humiliating to our human race. No Hymn of Hate can ever be a paean of humanity. -- Arthur Alfred Lynch
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. -- Madame de Stael
'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. -- Maria Mitchell
A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church. -- Jamey Johnson
Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights. -- Nick Clegg
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse. -- James Fenton
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church. -- Charles King
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it. -- Maya Angelou
When I'm dead, somebody can write my biography. I wrote a national hymn, an anthem, which I don't want to present to that country. But I have a deal with my wife - when I'm dead, she should offer it, because then I'm safe. -- Giorgio Moroder
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding. -- Julia Glass
I don't want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protestant hymn, and it is sung at all Protestant funerals, and I think I should have it sung at mine. It is called 'The Day Thou Gave Us Lord is Ended'. -- Jennifer Johnston
When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.' -- Heber J. Grant
The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other things, they established a long-standing pattern of dealing with foreign policy problems through armed interventions and also inspired the iconic phrase 'the shores of Tripoli' in the Marine Corps hymn. -- Nick Turse
You'll never even catch me doing that 'soft atheist' thing of very softly singing along or just mouthing the words, looking down at a hymn sheet every few seconds to check the words. To state the obvious, as an atheist, the hymn sheet is no use to me. So I just stand there, looking straight ahead or up at the ceiling, and do nothing. -- John Niven
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator. -- Robert Muller
And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature. -- James Ellis
Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. -- Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love. -- Alexis Carrel
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords. -- George Herbert
May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!" -- Danny Baker
We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about? -- Eddie Izzard
Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence. -- Edward M Hays
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. -- Emma Donoghue
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too. -- Samuel Wilberforce
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. -- Victor Hugo
And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world. -- Pablo Neruda
And to my lipsâ?? Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn... -- D. H. Lawrence
In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul. -- Roderick L. Evans
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise. -- Henry Van Dyke
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! -- Lord Byron
After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn. -- Wallace Stevens
The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili. -- Greg Mortenson
It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer â?? it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you. -- Brian Houston
No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality. -- Aldous Huxley
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times. -- Emma Donoghue
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate. -- Khalil Gibran
You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune. -- Louis Armstrong
Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory? -- Leonid Andreyev
Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn. -- Mary Weston Fordham
Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. -- George Orwell
You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside. -- John Lennon
If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work. -- D. H. Lawrence
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ. -- Ignatius of Antioch
Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities. -- Martin Lindstrom

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