Maria Monk Quotes

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

Maria Monk

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• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Terrible
  • Been
  • Rebuilding

• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
  • Man

• I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • World
  • Knows
  • Robert W. Chambers

• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Show

• Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Change
  • Growth

• My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Team
  • Leadership
  • Fight

• I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Death
  • Machinery
  • Shall

• My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Football
  • Playing
  • Legacy

• I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Opportunities
  • Grateful

• My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Wife
  • Soldier
  • Much

• I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Play

• Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Inspiration
  • Shows
  • Comments

• It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Community

• Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there's always new stories. … And as long as people want me to tell them, I'll be there doing them.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• Once you've got through immigration, one is always made to feel very welcome in America, once they've let you in. It's a great place to be.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Great
  • America
  • Immigration

• I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

  

  Hedda Sterne
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Study

• I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

  

  Frei Otto
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Humanity

• Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Important

• Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

  

  Maria Monk