Hildegarde's Quotes

#1. It was Sister Hildegarde's belief that good penmanship was the defining key to success in life.

Louise Erdrich

#2. Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#3. A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

Jeremy Collier

#4. You're just the romantic age," she continued- "fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty." - Hildegarde

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

Deepak Chopra

#6. I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.

Dolly Parton

#7. And then it was my turn to blink back the tears. It wasn't like I was ever going to replace my mother; but it felt special to be accepted, with all my flaws, by the mother of the person I might marry (p.200)

Kiera Cass

#8. It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.

Jim Stynes

#9. The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Enzo Ferrari

#10. Hildegarde stood, scratched her nose, an act for which she must later say a penance.

Louise Erdrich