Convents In The Us Quotes

#1. Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it

Andrew Lyon

#3. I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter
convents?

Meg Cabot

#4. James grabbed one of the curtains and used it to wipe the dog crap off his leg.

Robert Muchamore

#5. There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

Finley Peter Dunne

#6. I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents.

Patrick Modiano

#8. ...New Beginning to the same old story

Neal Shusterman

#9. Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.

Elaine Stritch

#10. After so many solitary years, spent tucked away in convents and forgotten in boarding schools, Isabelle never took for granted the fact that now she had friends, people whom she cared about and who cared about her.

Kristin Hannah

#11. I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#12. The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of what you hope to avoid in societies you find there.

Frederick Lenz

#13. To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

Alexander Pope

#14. God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Harvey Cox

#15. In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Umberto Eco

#16. quarters, long hoop houses covered in semi-opaque white

Susannah Hardy

#17. When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

Edsger Dijkstra