Nostra Quotes & Sayings

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I was younger, I was just always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation. — Blake Griffin

Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd. — Frederick Lenz

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.] — Ovid

My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get. — Laura Wiess

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved. — William James

Tell him, Cosa Nostra says, HELLAO! — Waheed Ibne Musa

Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein. — Pope Gregory I

Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.' — Pope John Paul II

We are not responsible to the .90 calibers the pezzonovantis who take it upon themselves to decide what we shall do with out lives, who declare wars they wish us to fight in to protect what they own ... And who are they then to meddle when we look after our own interests? Sonna cosa nostra ... these are our own affairs. We will manage our world for ourselves because it is our world, cosa nostra — Mario Puzo

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth. — Jamaica Kincaid

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent — Publilius Syrus

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote;
La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal territory
Terra Nostra. — Dejan Stojanovic

While Jesus transcends culture, culture does not change God's word. — Steve Prokopchak