Pastoral Resources

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.