Sievertsen Family Tree Quotes & Sayings

I suppose we were worn down and shivering. Three a.m. is a mean spirited hour. I suppose we were drenched, with the cold hose water trickling in at our collars and settling down at the tail of our shirts. Without doubt the heavy brass couplings felt moulded from metal-ice. Probably the open roar of the pumps drowned the petulant buzz of the raiders above, and certainly the ubiquitous fire-glow made an orange stage-set of the streets. Black water would have puddled the city alleys and I suppose our hands and faces were black as the water. Black with hacking about among the burnt-up rafters. These things were an every-night nonentity. They happened and they were not forgotten because they were not even remembered. — William Sansom

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. — Ted Turner

I'm not a religious person at all. — Marjane Satrapi

What the scholars discovered behind the veil was a Jesus created in their own images according to their own prejudices. — R.C. Sproul

I defy the ingenuity of journalists to persuade their public that any given member of the proletariat can have a personal grievance against astronomy. Starvation itself could hardly be dragged in there - eh? And there are other advantages. The whole civilized world has heard of Greenwich... Yes," he continued, with a contemptuous smile, "the blowing up of the first meridian is bound to raise a howl of execration. — Joseph Conrad