Hoeveelheid Soldaten Quotes & Sayings

She rose and washed and dressed herself and braided her hair freshly, and having made her room neat for the day she went into the peach-tree garden. It lay in the silence of the spring morning. Under the early sun the dew still hung in a bright mist on the grass, and the pool in the center of the garden was brimming its stone walls. The water was clear and the fish were flashing their golden sides near the surface. The great low-built house that surrounded the garden was still in sleep. Birds twittered in the eaves undisturbed and a small Pekingese dog slept on the threshold like a small lioness. — Pearl S. Buck

They were all brave men when faced with death. If they had had half as much fortitude in the face of life, they would have been invincible. — Donald Jack

But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If — Catherynne M Valente

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself. — Sister Parish

I love you, Lance." He rattles the frame of the window and reaches out at me. I guess that's his way of saying "I love you too.". — Richard P. Denney

Other people had religion to give them a connection to eternity, and good luck to them, but religion was too narrow for her, too unforgiving, too literal. Literature encompassed everything, forbade nothing, endorsed nothing. Writers, like scientists, had the greatest respect for the world as it truly was. Their job wasn't to judge but to examine, to experiment, draft after draft, century after century. — Kate Grenville

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal. — Paul Parker