Father Larry Lorenzoni Quotes

#1. After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

Alice McDermott

#2. Especially beware of bad books; and for nothing in the world let your soul be carried away by certain writings which weak brains admire, because of some vain subtleties which they find therein.

Francis De Sales

#3. Kids expected adults to show up in this part of their world. Because they were comfortable with us, introductions to their friends seemed natural.

Mark H. Senter III

#4. It's a hard spell and an old spell, and it works only if you understand the Great Vowel Shift of the Sixteenth Century - and if you're stupidly in love.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. The first loves of a man's youth run through all the currents of his life.

Charles S. Faddis

#6. Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.

Nicholas Royle

#9. I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin