Charles Buck quotes

“Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.”
-- Charles Buck

Source : Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.164

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“Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.”
-- Charles Buck

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“There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.”
-- Charles Buck

Source : Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238

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“Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.”
-- Charles Buck

Source : Charles Buck (1808). “Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck, Author of the Theological Dictionary, Containing the Young Christian's Guide; Or, Suitable Directions, Cautions, and Encouragement, to the Believer on His First Entrance Into the Divine Life, a Treatise on Religious Experience: in which Its Nature, Evidences, and Advantages, are Considered; Together with Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining, Alphabetically Arranged, and Interpersed with a Variety of Useful Observations”, p.66

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“Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.”
-- Charles Buck

Source : Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.44

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“It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.”

“In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.”

Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

“Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.”

“Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.”

“I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.”

“I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”

“Art is a profession, not a shrine.”

“To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.”

Source : George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz

“My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.”