Top 32 Columba Quotes
#1. My dearest Lord, be thou a bright flame before me, a guiding star above me, a smooth path beneath me, a kindly shepherd behind me, today and for evermore. - St. Columba of Iona
Richard J. Foster
#2. I believe in the same thing they believe in,' I say, with a jerk of my chin toward town and St. Columba's. 'I just don't believe you can find it in a building.
Maggie Stiefvater
#3. The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
[Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]
Ovid
#4. Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that is less enduring. - ATTRIBUTED TO COLUMBA OF IONA SIXTH CENTURY A
Sarah Arthur
#5. I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.
Columba Bush
#6. An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love.
Saint Columba
#7. With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand ... hopeless from the start.
Sylvia Plath
#8. I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
Candace Parker
#9. I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.
Columba Bush
#10. My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
Columba Bush
#11. My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her.
Columba Bush
#12. Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?
Lois Lowry
#13. My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.
Columba Bush
#14. O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You in the Sacrament which You left to us on the eve of Your Passion, as the testimony of the excess of Your love!
Columba Marmion
#15. Dangerous? Do you remember what Xavier's power is? Teleportation. Limited Teleportation, They guy can move about 10 feet. Worst thing he could do to me? Poke me in the eyes, and go "Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk" and Zip away before I can smack him," - Elena
Kelley Armstrong
#16. I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.
Columba Bush
#20. My children are the most important thing in my life.
Columba Bush
#21. All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.
Columba Bush
#22. I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one.
Claire Messud
#23. My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.
Columba Bush
#24. The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace
Gillian Sorensen
#25. I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
Columba Bush
#26. I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.
Columba Bush
#27. Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.
Columba Marmion
#28. My philosophy in life ... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.
Columba Bush
#29. My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.
Columba Bush
#30. I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.
Columba Bush
#31. Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.
Columba Stewart
#32. She had made him think he could do anything. Nobody else took him seriously. But she made him believe that he could do whatever he wanted.
Virginia Woolf
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