Terry Southern Quotes

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

I had the privilege of playing an angel on 'Touched by an Angel' for many years - almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.

My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me.

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Suffer little children and come unto me.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

If I were the Archangel Gabriel, madam, I’m afraid you would not be in my constituency.

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

We have short memories in football.

Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?" "I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

The color white is the absence of memory.

Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.