Volveran Quotes & Sayings

In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did! — Alison Weir

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

If life is a dream, I never want to awaken. — W.K. Pomeroy

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis. — Napoleon Hill

Sauvage, sad, silent,
as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling. — Alexander Pushkin

Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows. — David Mitchell