#saint

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#drops #god #handkerchief #handkerchiefs #his

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#am #being #everywhere #i #i am

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome. ↗

— Brett Favre

#grew #hour #i #saints #up

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#better #fool #gilded #saint #school

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#became #before #black #christianity #christians

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#before #everyone #him #i #liberating

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#black #black and white #build #inside #moral

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#enough #geniuses #i #man #played

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#because #bros #i #me #next