Knecht Ruprecht Quotes & Sayings

A bridge is a meeting place ... a possibility, a metaphor. — Jeanette Winterson

Arguments over Scriptures held the same power and importance as the way they dressed, the rituals they followed for prayer and for eating. All of this was intended to divide. To separate them from the rest. Either a person was part of their exclusive group or he was an outcast. Others might call themselves Judeans. They might consider themselves the Chosen, the followers of the One True God. But if politics or habits or interpretation of the Holy Book did not follow that of the Pharisees, they were doomed. — Janette Oke

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth. — Daniel Amory

Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love. — Mark McKinney

He loved that she made him something he never thought he'd been capable of being. Someone who stayed. — Sarah Addison Allen

Aidan realized he'd wasted a lot of time waiting for the perfect woman, when all he really wanted was someone to laugh with him the rest of his life. — Jill Shalvis

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish. — William Cowper

I have striven never to betray myself — Jude Morgan

God, an enormous darkness, hung looped over half her sky, an ever-present menace, a cloud waiting to break. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it. — Richard M. Nixon