Zarzana Custom Quotes & Sayings

If the ghost that haunts the towns of Ypres and Arras and Albert is the staturory British Tommy, slogging with rifle and pack through its ruined streets to this well-documented destiny 'up the line', then the ghost of Boulogne and Etaples and Rouen ought to be a girl. She's called Elsie or Gladys or Dorothy, her ankles are swollen, her feet are aching, her hands reddened and rough. She has little money, no vote, and has almost forgotten what it feels like to be really warm. She sleeps in a tent. Unless she has told a diplomatic lie about her age, she is twenty-three. She is the daughter of a clergyman, a lawyer or a prosperous businessman, and has been privately educated and groomed to be a 'lady'. She wears the unbecoming outdoor uniform of a VAD or an army nurse. She is on active service, and as much a part of the war as Tommy Atkins. — Lyn Macdonald

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. — Antony Beevor

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together. — Robert Mondavi

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday? — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

The fire in the evening was the best of all. Peter said is wasn't fie, but he couldn't tell me what it really was. You can thought, Grandfather, can't you?'
'It's the sun's way of saying goodnight to the mountains' he explained. 'He spreads that beautiful light over them so that they won't forget him till he comes back in the morning. — Joanna Spyri

I know what it is the way a child knows flying from watching a bird. — Pierce Brown

Hippy is still the closest word to happy. — DC Gallin

You will do to the paper towns and you will never come back — John Green

I did what I always do when I meet a beautiful woman," Kingsley said with a shrug. "I fucked her. — Tiffany Reisz

It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'. — Denis Dutton