Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven’t made is to talk about the unwritten book. – John le Carre
Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ – Jimmy Page
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike
My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she’d come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious. – John Mellencamp
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. – Giovanni Boccaccio
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. – Jonathan Swift
We pass now quickly from each other’s sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven. – Joshua Chamberlain
Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and – Oh Plato! – make a pudding? – Jane Welsh Carlyle
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. – James Whistler
My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven. – Joel Osteen
I will tell you this much. God himself comes down with his ribs from Heaven, and he distributes them to the TGI Friday’s. And that’s how they get them. – Jaime Camil
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves. – Jupiter Hammon
If you’re a physicist, for heaven’s sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn’t agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory. – Ivar Giaever
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it. – John Quincy Adams
I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven. – Al Franken
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow. – The Bible Jesus Christ, Matthew 19:21.
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” – The Bible Jesus Christ, Matthew 28:18.
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. – The Bible Philippians 3:13-14
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. – John Lubbock
You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it’s nice, I can’t imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know. – Conor Oberst