Anne Frank The Diary Of A Young Girl Quotes & Sayings

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The air became colder still and everything became paler — Roald Dahl

When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations. — Kathrine Switzer

Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again.
Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more. — Anne Frank

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound. — Buzz Aldrin

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. — Anthony Burgess

When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal. — Kate Bernheimer

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. — Anne Frank

I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them. — Anne Frank

I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it! — Anne Frank

No, I'm not afraid, except when it comes to things about myself, but I'm working on that. — Anne Frank

Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice. — Stephen Covey

What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction? — Anne Frank

All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem. Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other. In any case, that's just how things are, and unfortunately they're not liable to change. — Anne Frank

No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other. Up to know reason has always won the battle, but will my emotions get the upper hand? Sometimes I fear they will, but more often I actually hope they do! — Anne Frank

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews! — Anne Frank

I wasn't going to say anything about that, Tabitha," he said quietly. "I only wanted to tell you that your compassion for other people overwhelms me."
"Oh." She offered him a tenuous smile. "I'm just used to people condemning everything I do."
He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. "I don't condemn you, my lady. I only admire you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself. — Anne Frank

People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order. — Anne Frank

But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take ti too seriously. — Anne Frank

Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. — Will Schwalbe

I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't. — Anne Frank

I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has! — Anne Frank