Belgiorno Medals Quotes & Sayings

All the women knitted. They knitted worthless things; but, the mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eating and drinking; the hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus: if the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine-pinched. — Charles Dickens

I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street. — Beth Ditto

It is essential to love that it be, not a focus of two persons on each other, but of two persons on the same thing external to them both.

Although it has always been on offer, God's love cannot really be experienced unless or until one works side by side with him at transforming the world--unless or until one has confronted real affliction with him ("suffer[ed] with him,' Paul says in Romans 8:17) while tackling the task of remodeling the world (in what Paul calls, again in Romans 8:17, being "joint-heirs with Christ").

Love, in other words, has to be understood as more than a mere emotion; it is a way of being together in the world or, better, a way of working together to change the world.

What begins as a kind of instrumentality--I hope only to be a toll in God's hands--eventually becomes a very real partnership, ideally bound by covenant. — Joseph M. Spencer

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football. — Michel Patini

Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here. — Rumi

I spend my life wrestling my own mind over so many things. I chose to be noble even if it slips from my grasp at times — K. Farrell St. Germain

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?' — Tina Turner

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. — Harper Lee

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other. — John Quincy Adams

I had a lot of insecure moments in high school. It wasn't all peachy keen. But, I don't necessarily think that I hated high school and wanted to crawl into a hole either. — Kristen Bell

Pull in Positivity and Put out Negativity — Marcelle Hinkson

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful. — Indira Gandhi

We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her? — Venus Williams

They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets - and it's the secrets that attract attention. — R. Zamora Linmark