Istaba Quotes & Sayings

Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore. — Christopher

So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war's true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war - which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell - seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively. — Geoff Dyer

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black. — Clarence Thomas

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around. — Tony Blair

I'd be surrounded by scores of guards at the palace, but I couldn't imagine a place safer than my father's arms. — Kiera Cass