Stapenhorst Genealogy Quotes & Sayings

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself. — Ruta Sepetys

When things are going good, you've got to enjoy it, right? — Marco Scutaro

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel. — William Dalrymple

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy. — Kate Micucci

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii. — Jack London

The dead should have charity. — Neil Gaiman

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort. — Eleanor Robson Belmont

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. — H.L. Mencken

Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image. — Santosh Kalwar

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime. — Philip Stubbs

All mankind is of one author," he said slowly, " and is one volume. When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. Then there are bits I havena got by heart, but I liked this one: The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth" - and his hand squeezed mine gently - "and though it intermit again, yet from that minute that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God." "Hmm." I thought about that for a bit. — Diana Gabaldon