San Damiano Quotes & Sayings

We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to remember. What else is there to guide us? Those values are our inheritance, what makes us who we are as a people. And although we recognize that they are subject to challenge, can be poked and prodded and debunked and turned inside out bu intellectuals and cultural critics, they have proven to be both surprisingly durable and surprisingly constant across classes, and races, and faiths, and generations. We can make claims on their behalf, so long as we understand that our values must be tested against fact and experience, so long as we recall that they demand deeds and not just words. — Barack Obama

I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work. — Jenny Slate

Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid ... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control. — J.C. Ryle

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. — Nitin Nohria

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. — Marilyn Hacker

The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe. — Estelle Getty