Ahnentafel Quotes & Sayings

. Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were very much aware of the boycott's inherent absurdity:
A city on the Rhine during the boycott: SA men stand in front of Jewish businesses and "warn" passers-by against entering them. Nonetheless, a woman tries to go into a knitting shop.
An SA man stops her and says, "Hey, you. Stay outside. That's a Jewish shop!"
"So?" replies the woman. "I'm Jewish myself."
The SA man pushes her back. "Anyone can say that! — Rudolph Herzog

In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove."
"So I have been informed, sir."
"Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I'm going into the Park to do pastoral dances. — P.G. Wodehouse

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid

There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking. — Michael Pitt

Reaching down, he grabbed the man's ring. "They're promise rings," he whispered. Picking up the woman's, he lifted my right hand. Sliding it on my finger, he softly said, "You wear one." He slipped the man's on the ring finger of his right hand. "And I wear one." Smiling contently, he shook his head. "And we promise that no one comes between us. That we . . . belong to each other, and only each other. — S.C. Stephens

It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life.
CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING.
Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid.
Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you.
Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing.
It would make the whole experience easier. — Joan Bauer

Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich. — Robert Kiyosaki

You're in Europe. You're young. Young people have been going to Europe on a shoestring for a hundred years. — Meg Cabot

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically. — Kina Grannis

You may say, "I'd compliment him if he did something right." Well, he did at least one thing right. He married you! — Tony Evans

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out. — Gore Vidal

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous. — Akiva Goldsman

A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude — Jesse Schell

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog ... He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world ... When all other friends desert, he remains. — George Graham Vest

I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy. — Ty Murray