Herodotus Summary Quotes & Sayings

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you. — Saint Augustine

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt. — Walter Dean Myers

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. — Joan Didion

I see all this and I feel no amazement because making the shell implied also making the honey in the wax comb and the coal and the telescopes and the reign of Cleopatra and the films about Cleopatra and the Pyramids and the design of the zodiac of the Chaldean astrologers and the wars and empires Herodotus speaks of and the words written by Herodotus and the works written in all languages, including those of Spinoza in Dutch, and the fourteen-line summary of Spinoza's life and works in the instalment of the encyclopedia in the truck passed by the ice-cream van, and so I feel as if, in making the shell, I had also made the rest. — Anonymous

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problem with attempting to live up to other people's expectations was that you were destined to fail before you even began. I — Denise Grover Swank

Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time. — Toni Morrison

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. — Tanith Lee