“They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.”
James Russell Lowell
“I have to think that the sale is being driven by Pilgrim Baxter -- they want to grow more aggressively than perhaps UAM is willing to commit, ... It seems Pilgrim Baxter is a square peg at UAM.”
Alexander Paris
“PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.”
Chauncey Depew
“The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger”
George Santayana
“The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox 'pilgrims' and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane - not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.”
David Kirk
“In the aftermath, Sunnis from the east side of the Tigris told how they had tried to save pilgrims who fell on to the concrete by taking the injured to a Sunni mosque and university.”
Robert Fisk
