Shattering The German Night Quotes & Sayings

God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished. — Tad Williams

We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong. . . — David McCullough

At one stopover on the train journey home, Hans told his sister Inge later, he saw a young girl with the Star of David on her breast; she was repairing tracks on the line, along with other people with yellow badges on their clothes. Her face was pallid, sunken in; her eyes, beyond grief and terror. Impulsively, Hans thrust his rations in her hand. She looked up at him, then at his uniform. She threw the packet of food to the ground.
He scooped it up, wiped off the dust, and picked a daisy growing by the side of the tracks. He placed the package, with the daisy on top, at her feet. He said, "I would have liked to give you a little pleasure." He boarded the train.
When he looked back, the girl was standing there, watching the train disappear, the flower in her hair. — Jud Newborn

Well, a lot of people believe in the happily ever after and the fairytale relationships, let's not take that away from them. — Sandi Lynn

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within. — Hugh Reginald Haweis

But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity. — Neil Peart

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone. — Vance Palmer

Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones. — Winston Graham

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. — Mark Wahlberg