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Heaven Quotes


"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven."


"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."


"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"


"Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell."


"I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine."


"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."


"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"


"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."


"Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands."


"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"


"I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose."


"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."


"This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."


"I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored."


"They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out."


"I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know."


"And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is."


"The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven."


"We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?"


"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."


"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself."


"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."


"There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy."


"In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud."


"Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven."


"Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward."


"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"


"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
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