Wilfrid Sheed quote: "For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says."

There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!
SAKURA TSUKUBA

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr...
JOSEPH CONRAD

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

Should we call her?Maybe we should give her a RING to see where she is? Get it? Get it?

-...
CHRIS COLFER

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes ...
CHRIS COLFER

But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn'...
CHRIS COLFER

Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?
SAKURA TSUKUBA

May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS

My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS

I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS

You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS

People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS

Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS

My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS

I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS

My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS

In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I

My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON

Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON

You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V

I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON

It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period...
PRINCESS DIANA

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett...
PRINCESS DIANA

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa...
PRINCESS DIANA

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
PRINCESS DIANA

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel...
PRINCESS DIANA

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves...
PRINCESS DIANA

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
PRINCESS DIANA

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
PRINCESS DIANA

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ...
PRINCESS DIANA

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
PRINCESS DIANA

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
PRINCESS DIANA

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven...
PRINCESS DIANA

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
PRINCESS DIANA

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
PRINCESS DIANA

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good f...
OWEN GLENDOWER

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fu...
OWEN GLENDOWER

Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
OWEN GLENDOWER

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse ...
QUEEN VICTORIA

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Everybody grows but me.
QUEEN VICTORIA

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a ver...
QUEEN VICTORIA

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through ot...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

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For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

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