Shining Quotes

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.