Bernadette Soubirous Quotes

The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.

Bernadette Soubirous

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• It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • History
  • Spirit
  • Credibility

• When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Power

• Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fun

• Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • American
  • America
  • History

• The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

  

  Anita Roddick
  • Environment

• I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

  

  Chanel Iman
  • Work

• I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

  

  Jacques d'Amboise
  • Great
  • Ballet

• No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Time

• As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Christian
  • Doctors
  • Diagnoses

• With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Experience
  • Alone
  • Painting

• I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Remember

• Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • House
  • Faith

• I have kiddingly called it the 'Super Bowl,' which obviously can be improved upon.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Called
  • Super Bowl
  • Kiddingly

• If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

  

  William Golding
  • Fire
  • Animal
  • Blow

• France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • France
  • Despotism
  • Epigrams

• CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Smell
  • Corporate
  • Soulless

• "Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Monsieur Bertillon

• Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Great
  • Sweep
  • Broom

• On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Worry
  • Forest
  • Clouds

• I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep.

  

  Stephen Bruce
  • Starts
  • Frightened
  • Sweep

• The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.

  

  Bernadette Soubirous
  • Broom
  • Blessed Virgin