#easter

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#did #eastern #few #growing #growing up

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#i #never #nobel #select #surprised

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#america #attachment #east #eastern #four

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#alive #appeared #cataclysmic #christ #easter

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#central #cold #cold war #courage #decades

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cooked #cooking #daughter #easter #garden

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#central #chapter #close #communist #dark

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#around #collections #easter #new #new york

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3) ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#christianity #eastern-orthodox #beauty

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#eastern #eastern europe #europe #europeans #forget