Gies Quotes & Sayings

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life. — Miep Gies

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. — Miep Gies

People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don't know how to apply the principle of increase — Sunday Adelaja

I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary. — Miep Gies

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats. — Miep Gies

Father has been home a lot lately. There's nothing for him to do at the office; it must be awful to feel you're not needed. Mr. Kleiman has taken over Opekta, and Mr. Kugler, Gies & Co., the company dealing in spices and spice substitutes that was set up in 1941. A few days — Anne Frank

Sometimes I wish my brain didn't always have to warn me about things. Stupid people seem to live such easy, carefree lives. — L. H. Cosway

For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration, the buttonhole has not been invented. — Joseph Gies

I'm just a woman with a penis! she would say, her voice rising. — John Irving

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you. — Miep Gies

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal. — Roman Coppola

A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned beef, pickles, frankfurters, the great lusty impertinence of good mustard is a man of stone and without heart. — Herb Gardner

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room. — Miep Gies

Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists. — Joseph Gies

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries! — Louisa May Alcott

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday. — Miep Gies

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time. — Miep Gies

Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not on open shelves, but in locked chests. — Joseph Gies

Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard, — Miep Gies

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage. — Miep Gies

I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." - ROMAN DE RENARD — Frances Gies

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done. — Miep Gies

As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him. — Joseph Gies

I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice. — Miep Gies

The last entry in Anne's diary is dated August 1, 1944. On August 4, 1944, the eight people hiding in the Secret Annex were arrested. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, the two secretaries working in the building, found Anne's diaries strewn all over the floor. Miep Gies tucked them away in a desk drawer for safekeeping. After the war, when it became clear that Anne was dead, she gave the diaries, unread, to Anne's father, Otto Frank. — Anne Frank

When it comes to the subject it's best to understand that
white people do not recognize public transit as a viable option until a subway line is built that runs directly from their house to their work. — Christian Lander

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need. — Miep Gies

Jan Gies won't need to. He'll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep — Anne Frank

Gillie was grinning at the boy's indignant anger. He put a hand on the pages shoulder and looked coldly at Augusta. "Do you call my page a liar, old woman? And who are you to speak of this lady as your charge? My page is no liar, just as Thursey is not your charge. Not in any way. She is your landlord, for it is her inn you occupy. And it is to her you will answer for its keeping. She is beholden to no one, unless it would be the people of Gies in the same manner as I am - for she may be their princess soon. If she is willing," he added gently. — Shirley Rousseau Murphy

At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side only. On that side the cloth falls to the floor, doubling as a communal napkin...there are several kinds of knives...but no forks. — Joseph Gies

This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab. — Irvine Welsh

Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access. — Shalom Auslander

...beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep. — Joseph Gies

Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again! — Marthe Bibesco

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? — Miep Gies