Top 55 Danforth Quotes
#1. John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
Ken Mehlman
#2. We were raised in a family that had high aspirations for their children, and those high aspirations tended to be along the lines of service and high-minded beliefs, living up to your responsibilities. Both my Danforth grandparents admired service very much.
William Henry Danforth
#3. Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.
John C. Danforth
#5. In the Middle East, Iraq , Sudan , the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world , religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God .
John C. Danforth
#6. When I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.
Emily M. Danforth
#7. I think with the needs to feed the world's population, to end starvation, plant sciences offer great opportunities to do good and also to develop industry in St. Louis.
William Henry Danforth
#8. As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.
John C. Danforth
#9. Adam kept sneering, near a shout now. Yeah, well what about saving him from right now? What about the hell of thinking it's best just to fucking chop your balls off than to have your body somehow betray your stupid fucking belief system?
Emily M. Danforth
#10. The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God's position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life.
John C. Danforth
#11. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
John C. Danforth
#12. The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.
John C. Danforth
#13. In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.
Emily M. Danforth
#14. Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.
John C. Danforth
#15. You don't know anything about God. You don't even know anything about the movies.
Emily M. Danforth
#16. The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.
Emily M. Danforth
#17. I think it was probably the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
"I can't believe I don't have my camera," Jane said again, her voice almost reverent.
"You couldn't ever get this into a picture," I said. "And you'd miss it while you were trying to.
Emily M. Danforth
#18. In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.
Emily M. Danforth
#20. The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.
John C. Danforth
#21. What is it that I'm doing again?"
"You know that already," she said. "You just think that you don't, but you do. It's what you came all this way for.
Emily M. Danforth
#23. I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
John C. Danforth
#24. When you run into yourself, you run into feelings you never thought you had.
Emily M. Danforth
#25. The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems.
John C. Danforth
#26. But Ruth was wrong, too. There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at 99 cents apiece I could rent them all.
Emily M. Danforth
#27. When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.
John C. Danforth
#28. But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond, beyond, not beneath the surface at all, but beyond and waiting.
Emily M. Danforth
#30. And there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.
Emily M. Danforth
#31. I felt like I needed something official to show me how all of this should feel, how I should be acting, what I should be saying
even if it was just some dumb movie that wasn't really official at all.
Emily M. Danforth
#32. The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny ...
John C. Danforth
#33. I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous
the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows
but also so, so removed.
Emily M. Danforth
#34. How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?
Emily M. Danforth
#35. There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.
Philip Danforth Armour
#36. Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.
Emily M. Danforth
#37. We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.
John C. Danforth
#38. St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.
William Henry Danforth
#39. You have a four-fold life to live: a body, a brain, a heart and a soul . . . these are your living tools. To use and develop them is not a task. . . . It is a golden opportunity.
William H. Danforth
#40. The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.
John C. Danforth
#41. Just wait, dude," Jamie had said. "I'm serious. It's fucking hard-core." Since Jamie described everything from zombie movies to his parents' fights to the new enchilada platter at Taco John's as "fucking hard-core," none of us could gauge much by it.
Emily M. Danforth
#42. A relationship with a higher power is often best practiced alone.
Emily M. Danforth
#43. I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.
John C. Danforth
#44. There were angry clouds building up behind the moutains, black-gray clouds, great clumps of them colored just like cotton balls after Aunt Ruth cleaned off her eye makeup from a big night out, all gunky with mascara and eye shadow. (p 378)
Emily M. Danforth
#45. We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.
John C. Danforth
#46. That's because we have it so good, I told her, trying on his deep voice. We impersonated him all the way home, laughing and blowing bubbles, both of us knowing that he was right. We did have it so good.
Emily M. Danforth
#47. Certainly, the emergence of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the Taylor family has been one of the great things that has happened in St. Louis. We are no longer headquarters for McDonnell Douglas, although the McDonnell family is still very much involved in our community.
William Henry Danforth
#48. Now I sometimes wonder how things might have turned out differently if I'd not made that decision, but you don't really get anywhere when you think too much about stuff like that.
Emily M. Danforth
#49. No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Philip Danforth Armour
#50. But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.
Emily M. Danforth
#51. It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.
Emily M. Danforth
#52. Yeah," I said, "Whatever." I didn't want to talk anymore about what had just happened; I hated that about Promise. Why couldn't a moment just happen, and both of us be aware of it, without having to comment on it forever and ever?
Emily M. Danforth
#53. You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.
Emily M. Danforth
#54. God was pouring out His mercy and His grace upon the earth. God is pouring out His glory for all to see. Yet I also understood that the Lord was pouring out His judgments.
Michael Danforth
#55. I've got the weed, Jane said, and we all laughed the way you laugh when you're trying to be brave in the face of something that scares you.
Emily M. Danforth
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