Top 100 Bernadette's Quotes
#1. You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.
Karen Joy Fowler
#2. My Jesus, fill my heart with so much love that one day it will break just to be with you. My Jesus, you know I have placed you as a seal on my heart. Remain there always.
Bernadette Soubirous
#3. Bernadette never went to Mass; she was a fundamentalist Christian. Mother often said she only used religion as a framework for her craziness. She could just as easily have been a Muslim or a Buddhist or a white witch.
Donal Ryan
#4. Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature.
Bernadette Pajer
#6. When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.
Bernadette Roberts
#7. Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.
Sylvia Poggioli
#8. When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
Bernadette Peters
#9. O Jesus, keep me under the standard of Your cross. Let me not just look at You crucified, but have You living in my heart. Amen. - BERNADETTE OF LOURDES (1844
David P. Gushee
#10. ... where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.
Bernadette McDonald
#11. He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them.
Bernadette McDonald
#12. I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
Bernadette Peters
#13. We are at our very best when we see the world through the eyes of the person we're trying to matter to.
Bernadette Jiwa
#14. When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
Bernadette Peters
#15. Watch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.
Bernadette Soubirous
#16. -You said something else last night. Something about taking care of the woman you loved.
-I didn't think you were listening
-I heard you. And a woman wouldn't hide anything from the man she loved
~Arianna & John
Bernadette Marie
#17. I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
Bernadette Peters
#18. I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
Bernadette Devlin
#20. One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
Bernadette Devlin
#21. It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering.
Bernadette Soubirous
#22. Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism ... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
Bernadette Devlin
#24. I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
Bernadette Peters
#25. He felt it coming. He needed to be more to this woman than just the guy who showed up begging her to sing his songs. He...
He had no time to make a move before she came across the cab and planted her lips against his.
Bernadette Marie
#26. But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.
Bernadette Devlin
#27. Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
Bernadette Peters
#28. Is it fair to say we're just two adults who find the other interesting?"
"That's all I would say."
"No hidden agenda?"
"None"
"Have breakfast with me?"
"How could I refuse?
Bernadette Marie
#29. I've had the pleasure of working in the U.K. a few times before. I've shot a few movies there before. One of them was Neil Simon's 'London Suite,' which was based on his play. I also shot a film in Dublin, a little film with Bernadette Peters, called 'Bobbie's Girl.'
Jonathan Silverman
#30. She isn't my mother." He meant, of course, by simple mathematical extension, that his mother wasn't Teddy's mother either. Which meant that Bernadette, for whom he had lit a thousand candles, was the mother to whom his enormous love and devotion had no claim.
Ann Patchett
#31. -You shouldn't be here, You should be home with Kathy.
-Kathy knows where I am. She's worried about you.I'm going to be here until they kick me out and then i'll be back in the morning. ~Carlos & Maddie
Bernadette Marie
#32. I'm not good at this. I never have been. But, there's something about you that makes me just want to forget about everything else and only focus on you. No one has ever made me feel like that
Bernadette Marie
#33. [I]t's seeing the invisible problem, not just the obvious problem, that's important, not just for product design, but for everything we do. You see, there are invisible problems all around us, ones we can solve. But first we need to see them, to feel them. - T
Bernadette Jiwa
#34. People don't buy what you do; they buy how it makes them feel.
Bernadette Jiwa
#35. Go out and find some real people. Listen to their stories. Don't ask for the main point. Let the story run its course. Like flowing water, it will find its own way, at its own pace. And if you've got patience, you'll learn more than you might imagine. - T
Bernadette Jiwa
#36. It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
Bernadette Peters
#37. The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
Bernadette Peters
#38. My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
Bernadette Devlin
#39. Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
Bernadette Peters
#40. Into The Woods was ... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.
Bernadette Peters
#41. Why was it that every time this woman touched him his temperature rose at least ten degrees? And why was it that she made him forget about the crap going on around him for that instant?
Bernadette Marie
#43. Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
Jenna Ushkowitz
#44. As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.
Bernadette Jiwa
#45. It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
Bernadette Devlin
#47. 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.
Maria Semple
#49. I went to New York because you interested me.I was your date because you fascinated me. Now I have the honor of holding you at night, and I'm beside myself.~John & Arianna
Bernadette Marie
#51. Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.
Bernadette Peters
#52. I think I know the trees
Will never love me and we're here as accidentally
Bernadette Mayer
#53. The secret of disruptive innovations and business models isn't that they disrupt an industry; it's that they disrupt people.
Bernadette Jiwa
#54. Don't be so strong-willed that you won't let the man who loves you take care of you or do something for you. You never know when they will grow tired of trying.
Bernadette Marie
#55. Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
Bernadette Devlin
#57. I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
Bernadette Peters
#58. To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.
Bernadette Roberts
#59. I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on YOU to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.""
Bernadette
Maria Semple
#60. Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
Bernadette Peters
#61. The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.
Robert Ferrigno
#62. My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength ... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.
Bernadette Soubirous
#63. I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Bernadette Devlin
#65. It Might As Well Be Spring ... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
Bernadette Peters
#67. Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.
Bernadette Soubirous
#68. A failed attempt on a virgin face of an eight thousander gives me much more than the successful ascent of a known route.
Bernadette McDonald
#69. 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
Maria Semple
#70. With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.
Cheryl Strayed
#72. It stayed there because, honey, I've never stopped loving you. In my heart, you are my wife and always will be. ~Carlos & Maddie
Bernadette Marie
#73. I'll say I'm sorry for the rest of my life if you'll forgive me," he whispered in her ear.
"I want to hate you."
He pressed his forehead to hers. "You want to, but you don't?"
"I love you, you ass.
Bernadette Marie
#74. When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.
Bernadette Roberts
#75. The truth is that what really moves us is feelings, not facts.
Bernadette Jiwa
#77. Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath
Dorothea Lasky
#79. I meant it when I said I loved you"
"And I meant it in return.
Bernadette Marie
#80. You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
Bernadette Peters
#81. Bernadette longs for this moment as if it had already passed, as if it could have been. Yet here it is.
Jennifer Egan
#83. . Well, Teclan, wanna know something? Your government may have shut down my church. They may have closed the doors of our building and made us all go home. But no matter where true believers are, you can't shut down their soul.
Bernadette Allen
#85. The job of every single business on the planet is to do just one thing - to make people happy. When you find ways to do that, you win.
Bernadette Jiwa
#86. Difference thinking' is more than the ability to connect the dots, though. It's about seeing the truth, recognising the opportunity in that truth and then acting on it. You need to learn how to see the dots and understand the significance of connecting them before you can begin.
Bernadette Jiwa
#88. Only secrets can be conquered'- most of all the secrets that lie within ourselves.
Bernadette McDonald
#89. This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
Bernadette Roberts
#90. When you go the extra mile, people will know, and that knowing changes everything about how they feel about what you do.
Bernadette Jiwa
#91. Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.
Maria Semple
#92. No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
Bernadette Peters
#93. -I love you.
-You love me because I've made you feel safe?
-No, i'm very certain. I've loved you for a long time. The feeling safe,that's just a bonus. ~John & Arianna
Bernadette Marie
#94. People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.
Maria Semple
#95. I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
Bernadette Peters
#96. In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
Bernadette Roberts
#97. Anger was quickly creeping into the areas that mourning hadn't filled
Bernadette Marie
#98. Inner harmony is the prerequisite for any climber who seeks to push the frontiers; without it he should give up extreme mountaineering.
-Reinhold Messner
Bernadette McDonald
#99. The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
Bernadette Peters
#100. Giving a damn is seriously underrated and caring is a competitive advantage.
Bernadette Jiwa
