Vallombrosa Quotes & Sayings

I know about the rules but this should not be a red card for the keeper. Arsenal was punished enough with the penalty. — Manuel Neuer

A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought. — Thomas A Kempis

Reach inwards and draw that unique potential out, with it you can be anything and achieve so much! — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate. — Fay Weldon

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower. — John Milton

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. — Samuel Richardson

Go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. If you want to party, go get an MBA. The Rat — Charles Cooper

She [Catherine of Siena] found a place of refuge in a lonely wood, where some hermits lived. It is generally thought that this brotherhood was the community of hermits in Vallombrosa, founded by St. John Gualbert, the man who had spared the life of his deadly enemy because it was Good Friday, and later rushed into the nearest church and fell before the feet of the crucified Christ, as though drunk with this adventure - the adventure of forgiveness. And the Saviour leaned down from the cross and kissed the boy. — Sigrid Undset