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  • I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church. -- Alison Goldfrapp
  • Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. -- Max Muller
  • For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty. -- Douglas Sirk
  • The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again -- Emily Bronte
  • A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms. -- Edvard Grieg
  • As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. -- George Eliot
  • The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub. -- Morley Safer
  • Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms. -- Hanna Rosin
  • The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New. -- Randall Terry
  • My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus. -- David Walton
  • The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. -- Willie Nelson
  • If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there. -- Michael Keaton
  • My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old. -- Chuck Brown
  • I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! -- Robert Duvall
  • While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant. -- Ted Dekker
  • 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
  • I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing. -- Al Jarreau
  • What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. -- Ernest Gaines
  • I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence. -- Ashley Jensen
  • My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school. -- Faith Evans
  • I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound. -- Valerie June
  • I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. -- Trevor Phillips
  • I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend. -- Lee Smith
  • Take what the old-church -- Hilda Doolittle
  • I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady. -- Franz Grillparzer
  • I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. -- Joseph Conrad
  • It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church. -- Barbara Comyns
  • The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win. -- Lawrence Lessig
  • For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old. -- Willie Dixon
  • Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered. -- Hilda Doolittle
  • I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée. -- Robert Benchley
  • Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm. -- Pope Clement VIII
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  • I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings. -- Jamie Bell
  • Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world. -- Jack Hyles
  • My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old. -- Chuck Brown
  • We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
  • The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. -- George Bernard Shaw
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