Vorname Quotes & Sayings

The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled. It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes. The hands of the man who sawed the wood, left red marks on the billets; and the forehead of the woman who nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again. Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees - BLOOD. — Charles Dickens

Someday all you will have to light your way will be a single ray of hope and that will be enough. — Kobi Yamada

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all. — Marlene Dietrich

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world. — Max Lucado

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm. — Carlos Santana

How little commoners understood, Eshram thought, shaking his head. Most witches were good people, harmless. They only wanted to be one with nature, and were simply misunderstood. — David Bernstein

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government. — Calvin Coolidge

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before ... You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. — Eleanor Roosevelt