Quotes About Don Corleone

#1. Instead of "thinking God's thoughts after him," science was now studying the world as though God didn't exist.

N. T. Wright

#2. Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not-Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#3. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#5. My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

Nandan Nilekani

#6. Here's a lesson for you, Sonny: Don't write if you can talk, don' talk if you can nod your head, don't nod if you don't have to

Ed Falco

#7. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#8. Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now ...

Melissa De La Cruz

#9. Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#10. I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

James Q. Wilson

#11. A funeral is no place for secrets.

Mitch Albom

#12. If I had to spend an hour getting ready every time I went somewhere, I wouldn't bother leaving the house.

Donna Joy Usher

#13. You got to be in mighty bad shape in the head to eat greens and Jell-o.

Dori Sanders

#14. ..for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone.

Mario Puzo

#15. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
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Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

Mario Puzo

#16. Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing; if it wasn't I wouldn't be able to recognize that anything was wrong

Greg Evans

#17. I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.

Genevieve Padalecki

#18. I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

John Heywood

#19. Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

J.D. Greear

#20. Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
-Don Vito Corleone

Mario Puzo

#21. For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.

Mario Puzo

#22. Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.

Mario Puzo

#23. No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

Mario Puzo

#24. That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in our response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.

Harold S. Kushner

#25. Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Mario Puzo