Sentamu Quotes

#1. I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle ... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

Mads Mikkelsen

#2. Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

John Sentamu

#3. I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

Christy Hall

#4. As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother

John Sentamu

#5. What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

John Sentamu

#6. Owning fewer keys opens more doors.

Alex Morritt

#7. There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

John Sentamu

#8. Troutie, my bonnie little fellow, am not I the most beautiful woman in all the world?

Kenneth MacLeod

#9. We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

Oskar Schindler

#10. What I do now for the people they don't understand it, but when they found it they won't have chance to back 10 or 5 years and to read this which I have and to use it for something more than this.

Deyth Banger

#11. Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit, and how the world-behind-th e-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality.

Robert Moss

#12. Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Vera Rubin

#13. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

John Sentamu

#14. I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.

John Sentamu

#16. What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?

John Sentamu

#17. Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it.

Bell Hooks

#18. The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

Rebecca M. Blank

#19. The Keys To Happiness
1.Finishing the Grave Digger's Handbook.
2.Escaping the ire of Santa Maria.
3.Recieving two books for Christmas.

Markus Zusak

#20. The more one tries to make me weak the stronger I become.

Amit Abraham

#21. The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

John Sentamu

#22. I don't think about Hollywood at all.

Alex Cox

#23. The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

John Sentamu

#24. Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains,

John Sentamu

#25. Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

John Sentamu

#26. Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.

John Sentamu