Top 128 Pilgrims Quotes & Sayings

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.

I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try to tell me that they broke bread together, brother.

I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

We are traveling on with our staff in hand... We are pilgrims bound for the heavenly land.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.

Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn’t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be running around in loin cloths shooting at things with their arrows.

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.

Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.

Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else. (101)

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new solar system.

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.

Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

Stop and think of what happened in America. The melting pot, yeah, it happened. Stop and think of what happened, from the first days of the founding. You have to go back to the Pilgrims. You have to include the Pilgrims in the founding. Why they came. What they learned on the way. What they learned after they got here. The Pilgrims, like everybody else, tried to establish a socialist collective. Bombed out. Didn't work. We know this, the governor wrote about it himself, William Bradford.

Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.

What you learn today?" I ask even though she ain't in real school, just the pretend kind. Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims. They came over and nothing would grow so they ate the Indians." Now knew them Pilgrims didn't eat no Indians. But that ain't the point.

Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating pussy on Thanksgiving?!

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.