Dunquerk Quotes & Sayings

Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed — Danielle Steel

It stings to clean a wound, to poke it and prod it until certain that any contagions have been excised, but we want to heal. — Bromleigh McCleneghan

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it. — Princess Diana

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance. — Jorge Luis Borges

We live in Matrix run with rules from the people around us. — Deyth Banger

Veterinary arts?" Jane asked with a gasp. "Lucy, you must be mad." "I assure you I've all my wits about me," Lucy Abbington answered with a frown. No, she wasn't mad, but her life was about to change - dramatically. She'd long since recognized this as the truth, ever since her father had packed her — Kristina Cook

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time. — Jean Kerr

Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter. — Heloise D'Argenteuil

BEFORE HE CAME INTO a lot of money in 1839, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, led a largely uneventful life. — Bill Bryson

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. — Susan Cain

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war. — George S. Patton

American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century. — Matt Groening

Take a bite, but be polite! Not everyone enjoys the sight, Of food that's chewed, It looks quite crude! So close your mouth when you cheeeeew! — Sheri McClure-Pitler

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life. — Michael Foley

The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything ... — Harold Brodkey