Christening Quotes

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  • What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

    Song   Laughing   Funeral  
    "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.
  • Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

    Sleep   Fairy   Gifting  
  • Success doesn't come overnight and there's certain things you can't do. I've missed so many weddings, christenings and birthdays, but I know all my family are there behind me, wanting me to do really well and it was worth the sacrifice.

    Source: www.bbc.co.uk
  • If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

    Paris   Dinner   Way  
    Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”
  • Prepare ye the way of the Lord.

    Way   Lord   Christening  
    "The Book of Isaiah" (King James Version), 40:3, c. 800–500 B.C..
  • Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

  • If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

    Nature   Children   Years  
    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.

    Doe   Matter   Problem  
  • Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

    War   Promise   Holy  
    1979 Of elections. The Americans.
  • ‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

    Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.108, Dial Press
  • There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

    Country   Quality   Court  
    William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.281
  • A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.

    Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.39, Revell
  • My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

  • All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.

    World   Milk   Abyss  
    Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.91, New Directions Publishing
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