Kershaw Quotes & Sayings

Our enemies are small worms,' he told his generals. 'I saw them in Munich. — Ian Kershaw

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

His only realistic hope of survival was to order his own artillery to fire on his positions to stall the German attack. Some of his own men might be killed, but "pulling the chain," as it was called, was his only option. — Alex Kershaw

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference. — Ian Kershaw

Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz. — Nik Kershaw

I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic. — Sacha Baron Cohen

Although most well-informed people have heard of Wallenberg today, many, including Jews, know less about him than about Oscar Schindler, who saved far fewer people and in any case profited from their forced labor. — Alex Kershaw

Nationalist conflicts and ethnic-racial tensions were greatly intensified by the territorial settlement of Europe that followed the First World War. The architects of the Versailles Treaty in 1919, however good their intentions, faced insuperable problems in attempting to satisfy the territorial demands of the new countries formed out of the wreckage of the old empires. Ethnic minorities formed sizeable parts of most of the new states in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe, offering a potential base for serious political disturbance. Almost — Ian Kershaw

Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history. — Ian Kershaw

Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim? — Abbey Lee Kershaw

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair. — Nik Kershaw

Like his other books, Kershaw has written a rousing tale of little-known heroes . . . The Few marks Kershaw as a master storyteller." - Booklist — Alex Kershaw

My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck. — Sammy Kershaw

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. — Nik Kershaw

Country music is not a formula it's a music with its own soul and I'm all about saving that soul! — Sammy Kershaw

I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states - negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps these interactional loops and provides Ericksonian strategies to help couples make their marriage entrancing. Therapists of all persuasions are sure to benefit from this important book. — Jeffrey K. Zeig

Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting. It obviously is tough [to be a parent], but when you feel that love, and it's instant, and it's so cool, so fun. When your baby smiles at you or when you just hold your baby, it's a pretty awesome feeling. — Clayton Kershaw

If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics. — Andy Kershaw

Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me
But some things are meant to be
Coincidence, circumstance
Or something bigger thats just out of our hands
But some things are meant to be — Sammy Kershaw

Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company. — Ian Kershaw

Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch ... Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler's image and reputation at this time - so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all - was little more than that of a vulgar demagogue, capable of drumming up passionate opposition to the government among the Munich mob, but of little else. — Ian Kershaw

The army leadership, taking these wishes of Hitler on board and also bearing in mind the outcome of the war games, had already adjusted its strategic thinking when, on 18 February, Hitler spoke of the favourable impression he had gained of Manstein's plan the day before.42 The die was now cast. By chance, the basic thoughts of the amateur had coincided with the brilliantly unorthodox planning of the professional strategist. Further refined by the OKH, the Manstein plan gave Hitler what he wanted: a surprise assault in the most unexpected area which, though not without risk, had the boldness of genius. The — Ian Kershaw

I like my hands. They do most of the talking. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would have been no way he could have achieved his murderous aims. — Volker Ullrich

A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music. — Sammy Kershaw

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away. — Nik Kershaw

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. Winston Churchill (1901) — Ian Kershaw

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink. — Nik Kershaw

Hitler was never a socialist. — Ian Kershaw

I'm off to sit on a cliff. — Nik Kershaw

The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party ... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal. — Ian Kershaw

Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ, — Clayton Kershaw

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up. — Nik Kershaw

Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious. — Ian Kershaw

In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more prominently, posed against the alternative international competition for markets ... The key theme now was the collapse of Germany under parliamentary democracy and party government into a divided people with separate and conflicting interests, which only the NSDAP could overcome by creating a new unity of the nation, transcending class, estate and profession. — Ian Kershaw

I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money. — Nik Kershaw

Strasser hoped to replace the Programme of 1920. In November, he took the first steps in composing the Community's own draft programme. It advocated a racially integrated German nation at the heart of a central European customs union, the basis of a united states of Europe. — Ian Kershaw

George Jones has been a major part of my personal and professional life for a long time. I have been inspired by his music for the last 50 years and for 42 of those, I had the pleasure of knowing him personally and professionally. He was IT to me. George was and will always be my guy. I am luckier than a lot of people on this Earth because God let me be a part of George's life and him a part of mine. And on this day, his song couldn't be more true: 'He Stopped Loving Her Today.' — Sammy Kershaw

The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

The toughest part of decluttering is deciding where to start and then getting motivated to actually get started. — Michael Kershaw

I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about — Ian Kershaw

The 'either-or' dogmatism, the stubbornly principled refusal to entertain compromise or concession, had served him well and had invariably proved successful in his political 'career' as long as he was combating weak, divided, and irresolute opponents. But it was a massive and insuperable obstacle when enemy positions were strong and united, when initiative had been irretrievably lost, bargaining power was weakening by the day, and more flexible military tactics and more subtle political skills were desperately needed. Not — Ian Kershaw

I won't let the sun go down on me. — Nik Kershaw

Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody. His main ability by far, as he came to realise during the course of 1919, was that in the prevailing circumstances he could inspire an audience which shared his basic political feelings, by the way he spoke, by the force of his rhetoric, by the very power of his prejudice, by the conviction he conveyed that there was a way out of Germany's plight. — Ian Kershaw

Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech. — Ian Kershaw

There's stuff that everybody does that they don't know they do. — Nik Kershaw

Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying
which was invariably that he thought XYZ was a terrific idea and he hoped it went very well for you
while at the same time paying heed to the greasy, nauseous suspicion you had that, although every word and phrase indicated approval, somehow the sum of the whole was that you'd have to be a mental pygmy to come up with this plan and a complete fucking idiot to pursue it. — Nick Harkaway

I might have to go on breakfast TV, which would mean getting up early. — Nik Kershaw

Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family. — Ian Kershaw

I'm going to live my life like I've got one life to live. — Sammy Kershaw

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

They had straddled the British trenches, 'crushing the sides of our own trench out of shape with their machine-guns swivelling around and firing like mad.' Their commanding officer furiously rained blows on the side of one of them with his staff cane, trying to get them to stop. Nobody knew what they were, except that they were British. 'There was a bulge on each side with the door in the bulging part,' observed Chaney, 'and machine-guns on swivels poked out from either side. — Robert Kershaw

I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything. — Abbey Lee Kershaw

I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform. — Clayton Kershaw

I've got an air mattress for a bed ... really living the high life. — Clayton Kershaw

I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis. — Mo'ne Davis

It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage. — Abbey Lee Kershaw