Columba's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

Columba Bush

#3. An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love.

Saint Columba

#4. I love the arts.

Columba Bush

#5. Tengo could hardly believe it
that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts
a boy's and a girl's
could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.

Haruki Murakami

#6. 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

#7. I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

Columba Bush

#8. Do not keep secrets - except in your fiction, where their corrosive influence and dark gravity make for high drama.

Donald Maass

#9. 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

#10. My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

Columba Bush

#11. First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

Emily St. John Mandel

#12. My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her.

Columba Bush

#13. My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

Columba Bush

#14. There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.

Simon Mainwaring

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Joy is the echo of God's life within us.

Columba Marmion

#18. My children are the most important thing in my life.

Columba Bush

#19. All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.

Columba Bush

#20. My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

Columba Bush

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

Columba Bush

#26. 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

#27. Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.

Columba Stewart

#28. 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

#29. The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.

Roger Scruton