Markgrafliches Quotes & Sayings

She was too proud to eat her share of what little food we had. She told me she had. She swore she did. But every time I complained about being so hungry it hurt, she always offered me a nut or a partially rotted turnip, claiming she had just found two and already ate hers."

Rose sniffled and wiped her eyes again.

"After she was gone, I left my pride in that little hut and begged my way to Medford. I'd do anything. Once you've spent an afternoon chasing a fly around your house for dinner, once you've eaten spiders whole and drooled over worms found while burying your mother with your bare hands, there's nothing beneath you. All I wanted was to live-I'd forgotten everything else. A clod of dirt doesn't have dreams. A bit of broken stone doesn't understand hope. Each morning, all I wanted was to see the next dawn. — Michael J. Sullivan

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It's going to be tough (winning the MVP Award). I'm not really considered a media darling. — Albert Belle

What we do brag about is our kids' perfectness even as simultaneously we evince so little actual faith in their ability to do the work of living life on their own, the way every prior generation of humans somehow has. Instead of a belief in them, we have great faith that our skills, plans, and dreams are the right tools for constructing their lives. — Julie Lythcott-Haims

Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds. — Lauren Conrad

Work is my joy ... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do. — Robert Rauschenberg

There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during those beautiful hours of free time everyone would have the opportunity to rouse himself into real boredom. But although one wants to do nothing, things are done to one: the world makes sure that one does not find oneself. And even if one perhaps isn't interested in it, the world itself is much too interested for one to find the peace and quiet necessary to be as thoroughly bored with the world as it ultimately deserves. — Siegfried Kracauer

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence. — Colum McCann

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. — Publilius Syrus

God thinks like the shepherd who lays down his life in order to defend and save his sheep. — Pope Francis

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. — Ovid

Happy girls are the prettiest — Audrey Hepburn

Until I met him today." He turned to Jes. "Who is the forest — Patricia Briggs

But a vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies that develop between brothers or sisters almost unnoticed until maturity, only to burst out when one of them marries or has a stroke of good fortune, kept them constantly on the alert in a fraternal, unaggressive hostility. They did love each other, yet they kept an eye on each other. — Guy De Maupassant

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. — Anne Frank