Donkersloot Stamboom Quotes & Sayings

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. — Juvenal

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them. — Charles Clarke

I'd rather look old than look as if I'd had plastic surgery. Sometimes it looks really fake; all people can think about when they look at you is that you've had plastic surgery. — Heather Graham

It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it. — Kelley Armstrong

Swing hard in case you hit it. — Dan Marino

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. — D.H. Lawrence

I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when he was only twenty-one years old. I read his story as I had read many others, turning the pages, skimming here and there: this sabotage, that tactic, this capture, that escape. After a while even courage becomes routine to the reader. Then, quite unprepared, I turned the page and faced a photograph of Kim Malthe-Bruun. He wore a turtleneck sweater, and his thick, light hair was windblown. His eyes looked out at me, unwavering on the page. Seeing him there, so terribly young, broke my heart. — Lois Lowry