Columba Quotes & Sayings

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families. — Columba Bush

But today in the United States, and this shows you where fascism REALLY exists, Any doctor in the United States who cures cancer using alternative methods will be destroyed. You cannot name me a doctor doing well with cancer using alternative therapies that is not under attack. And I know these people; I've interviewed them. — Gary Null

Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects. — Charles Darwin

Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials. — Columba Stewart

Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all. — Vera Nazarian

Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath. What steps did the young Israelite take to overthrow the giant? He struck him in the middle of the forehead with a pebble from his sling. If we regard the Philistine as representing evil and all its powers: heresy, impurity, pride, we can consider the little stones from the sling capable of overthrowing the enemy as symbolizing the Aves of the Rosary. — Columba Marmion

My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer the night before, and when I take them out in the morning they are already cold and active and are great under my eyes. I keep my eye pads right next to my red velvet Ben & Jerry's in the freezer. — Christine Teigen

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics. — Columba Bush

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me. — Columba Bush

All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt. — Columba Bush

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that. — Columba Bush

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all. — Columba Bush

I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less. — William T. Vollmann

My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her. — Columba Bush

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now. — Anne Waldman

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become. — Nathan Fillion

Sex is pretty much our most important job. It's the one thing we have to nail - so to speak - so we get invited back for more. It's pretty much the reason we take a shower and brush our hair. — Rachel Gibson

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside. — Seanan McGuire

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time. — Alan Watts

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well. — Columba Bush

Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that is less enduring. - ATTRIBUTED TO COLUMBA OF IONA SIXTH CENTURY A — Sarah Arthur

Joy is the echo of God's life within us. — Columba Marmion

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. — Columba Bush

These times of war and ruin will pass, and by love, you will be renewed and all terrible things shall be undone. Do you hear me, Fin Button?" Jeannot pushed the hair from her face and though shaking yet, Fin nodded. "In the name of God I drew you from the water, and in his name shall you be delivered home. — A.S. Peterson

Columba, Lepus, Canis Major, Canis Minor, Procyon, Betelgeuse, Rigel, Orion, Taurus, Aldebaran, Gemini, Pollux, Castor, Auriga, Capella, the Pleiades, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Polaris, Draco, Cepheus, Vega, the Northern Cross, Cygnus, Deneb, Delphinus, Andromeda, Triangulum, Aries, Cetus, Pisces, Aquarius, Pegasus, Fomalhaut. — Mark Helprin

Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God. — Columba Marmion

An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love. — Saint Columba

O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You in the Sacrament which You left to us on the eve of Your Passion, as the testimony of the excess of Your love! — Columba Marmion

My children are the most important thing in my life. — Columba Bush

The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia". — Columba Marmion

I love the arts. — Columba Bush

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself. — Columba Bush

I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist. — Marilynne Robinson

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children. — Columba Bush

I believe in the same thing they believe in,' I say, with a jerk of my chin toward town and St. Columba's. 'I just don't believe you can find it in a building. — Maggie Stiefvater

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
[Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.] — Ovid

My philosophy in life ... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can. — Columba Bush

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy. — Raheel Farooq

We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance. Would it not indeed be a failing in respect to neglect the divine Guest who awaits us? He dwells there, really present, He who was present in the crib, at Nazareth, upon the mountains of Judea, in the supper-room, upon the Cross. It is the same Jesus who said to the Samaritan woman, 'If thou didst know the gift of God!' — Columba Marmion

They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My dearest Lord, be thou a bright flame before me, a guiding star above me, a smooth path beneath me, a kindly shepherd behind me, today and for evermore. - St. Columba of Iona — Richard J. Foster

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer. — Arnold Bennett

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States. — Columba Bush

I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why. — Elisabeth Elliot