Ursuline Quotes & Sayings

We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade against religion in the name of social and moral advance. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods" [Genesis 3:5 KJV]. — Billy Graham

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening. — Arthur Golden

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest. — Jean De La Bruyere

If they're old enough to pee, they're old enough for me. — Stephen King

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate. — Nanci Griffith

Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock. — Dalton Trumbo

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity. — Mason Cooley

What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families. — Mario Puzo

Lincoln didn't just end slavery. King didn't just dream segregation away. Parks didn't just get tired one day. It is often the unrecognized actions of previous generations that push a society to eventually embrace mantras such as hope, equality, change, and other ideals, which transform the political landscape. Chisholm's actions remind us that there are hundreds of forgotten foot soldiers in history that helped to bring these watershed moments to fruition. For — Shirley Chisholm

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing. — William Cowper

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.

-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose. — Tom Clancy

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. — Willie Nelson

He'd said they were studying the "taywah" or "terror" of the region, even when he'd spelled it out as t-e-r-r-o-i-r. — Jeff VanderMeer

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what. — Gary Zukav