Quotes of: Patron-saint Keyword

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

Warren Beatty

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Allen Weinstein

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

Brad Bird

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalist...

Vladimir Putin

What do you know of gods and saints?” I ask, filling my voice with scorn. His fingers drift to the silver oak leaf of Saint Camulos on his cloak. “I know that what our saints want is not always made clear to us. Sometimes, it is their wish for us...

Robin LaFevers

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

The Leper of Saint Giles

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

James McGreevey

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Shane Leslie

A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.

Italian

When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse.

Carnivorous Saint Gay Poems, 1941-1976

He's better now, Loo. He's taking care of the cats.

Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)

The Leper of Saint Giles

Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I’m no saint.

Til Death

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

Athanasius

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Darrell Royal

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch mov...

Salman Khan

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.

Gustav Krupp

Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?

Shaping the dream

Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known.

Shaping the dream

I like to get to-go boxes at restaurants where not only did I not eat in, but apparently their patrons didn’t either, judging by how much food they left on their plates.

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I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

Joanna Trollope