Quotes & Sayings About Anne Frank House

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail, — Elliott Smith

Dan suddenly tugged at my hand. "C'mon, Bekah. Daddy and Uncle Lloyd are takin' us fishing. Right, Daddy?" "Uncle Lloyd?" I looked at Frank. He shrugged. "Your father suggested it." "You comin' with us, Bekah?" Dan pressed his hands together, as if in prayer. "Please?" "Please, Rebekah?" Frank seemed as anxious as his son for my answer. Elation coursed through me, almost raising my feet from the ground. I opened my mouth to say yes. "Rebekah?" Mama's voice pulled my attention toward the house. "Rebekah Grace, where have you gotten to?" When my gaze returned to Frank, his sunny expression had darkened to a thundercloud. My hands turned to ice, in spite of unhindered sun. "I'm sorry," I whispered. I ran toward the house, toward Mama, all the while hating myself for wishing she'd never come. — Anne Mateer

One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing. — Xavier Dolan

An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more. — Mark Barrowcliffe

As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace. — Madonna Ciccone

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible. — Jane Austen

I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions. — Otto Frank

Wouldn't you rather see the real Amsterdam?' No, Cat, dammit, no! I had no desire to see the real Amsterdam. We had reality back in Berkshire, that's not why we were here; we had no interest in the way things really were. A perfectly co-ordinated schedule of sightseeing was unravelling before my eyes. 'If we don't go to the Anne Frank House today, the whole plan falls apart.' I felt myself getting shrill. — Anonymous

Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals. — John C. Maxwell

But I long to have a really good time for once and to laugh so hard it hurts. We're stuck in this house like lepers, — Anne Frank

Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld ... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. — Anne Frank

I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt. — Anne Frank

The expert is someone who carries malpractice insurance. — Laurie Anderson

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue. — Michel De Montaigne

Augustus Waters, I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love. — John Green

Nobody knew the chaos happening behind my eyes — Andrea Wolfe

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never. — Pete Rose