Quotes about itinerant (11 Quotes)


    Itinerant evangelists are also drawn to the quarter, although they seek stray souls rather than hook-ups and hangovers. I'm here to spread the Gospel, ... Time is running out. Do you know Jesus

    Steinbeck wrote about the Depression and how hard people's lives were, but he also makes so much comment about itinerant farm workers and race relations. He does a wonderful job illuminating character. He records the best and worst of human behavior. If you're looking for a window back to this time, this is it.

    Documentary filmmakers are an itinerant group of people, and at the core of their mission is going out and bringing back stories that aren't been told in the mainstream media.

    But now, thanks to a three-year-old program called Prompt Itinerant Assistance, the government is instead going to them. Maybe now I'll be able to get my pension, ... I've worked my whole life as a field hand and I've reached the right age, but until I came here, I never had any of the papers I need to be eligible, not even a birth certificate. What could I do I don't know where the nearest notary public's office is, much less how I can get there.

    As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose the be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. . . .


    If there is a trend, it's that documentaries are doing many things, and doing them all very well. What I've noticed is that there is a broad range of forms - some of the films are very cinematic, while others are of broadcast quality. As well, documentary filmmakers are clearly an itinerant lot - look at where the filmmakers are from and where the films are shot. This is indeed a very international film festival.


    Said of the Irish itinerant preacher the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1739. Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse ....


    It is hard to leave the world (to become a friar), it is hard to enjoy the world hard is the monastery, painful are the houses painful it is to dwell with equals (to share everything in common), and the itinerant mendicant is beset with pain.

    Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.



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