241 Quotes About Saint

As soon as you are born, you're given a name, a religion, a nationality and a race. You spend the rest of your life defining and defending a fictional identity.

This is the world of sixty billion dollars saint.

My mother looked at me then, with something in her eyes I’d never seen before. A reverence. As if something marvelous and at the same time harrowing had just happened. She blinked, pulling me between her and Saint, and I burrowed in, their warmth instantly making me feel like a child again.

I'm not jealous, dear, do your best, onlydon't make a saint of him. I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of humannaughtiness.

Why are they all trying to make me into a saint?Oh God! Oh God!I want to do things. Stop turning me into a saint.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

This one isn’t a girl, Mama. I keep telling you, I planted a boy this time. Why don’t you believe me?

It's no good fooling about with love you know. You can't fall into it like a soft job without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. If you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, tidy soul, you better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint, because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world... or the next.

You think me relentless?I'm much worse than that.