(24 quotes found)
“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 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
“The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger”
George Santayana
“Get ready for some more pilgrims to come to Massachusetts.”
Patrick Bradley
“Seeing as Harvard Pilgrim was the smaller of the three carriers, it was easier for them to grow. They don't have anything to lose.”
Dan Cronin
“Three other Indian pilgrims are reported missing and efforts are own to find out their whereabouts.”
Ausaf Sayeed
“[The pilgrims are] participating in something that would not have been possible before, ... And thus far it has occurred without any significant incidents.”
Vincent Brooks
“We rented another four buildings for pilgrims, which could accommodate thousands of people for lodging.”
Chang Qingliang
“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
