Quotes About Franciscans

#1. To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).

George Herbert

#2. Like so many other San Franciscans whose paycheck isn't tied to an app or a private bus ride to the Peninsula, you wait to see what tomorrow brings and try to stay steadfast.

Oscar Villalon

#3. City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

Gavin Newsom

#4. San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

Herb Caen

#5. I am told that only two groups carry very little negative baggage inside of Christianity: Franciscans and Quakers.

Mirabai Starr

#6. Stephen came on deck reflecting with satisfaction upon his sloth, now a parlour-boarder with the Irish Franciscans at Rio, and a secret drinker of the altar-wine.

Patrick O'Brian

#7. As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

Gavin Newsom

#8. Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

Gavin Newsom

#9. What brings you up to the City? he said when we were inside. To San Franciscans, there's only one city.

Ross Macdonald

#10. Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

Stella Benson

#11. But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

Gavin Newsom

#12. San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

Gavin Newsom

#13. Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

Belinda G. Buchanan

#14. Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly.

Habeeb Akande

#15. I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to.

Ruth Reichl

#16. I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Norman Mailer

#17. We are all like cells within the body of the Universe/ God - as are plants, animals, air, natural resources and everything down to a subatomic level. Like cells in a body, these expressions grow, create, divide, destroy, die and are reabsorbed into the Universe/God to create again.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#18. We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.

James Van Praagh

#19. Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.

Phil Knight

#21. The ladies of Cranford always dressed with chaste elegance and propriety ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#22. One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#23. Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack Obama's, which have led us to this point, are precisely why I fearlessly said and still say, I hope he fails.

Rush Limbaugh

#24. People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

Natalie Portman

#25. LeBron James has cemented himself as one of the GREAT PLAYERS of ALL TIME.

Stephen A. Smith