Anne Frank The Diary Of A Young Girl Quotes

#1. The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

George Berkeley

#2. I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!

Anne Frank

#3. Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

Samuel Smiles

#4. It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

Alexander Hamilton

#5. A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

Michael Arrington

#6. I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.

Anne Frank

#7. It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.

Alan Bradley

#8. In point of fact, most witches probably know more about liquor and how to properly drink it than many ancient and knowledgeable bartenders.

Melinda Bardon

#9. Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

Will Schwalbe

#10. But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take ti too seriously.

Anne Frank

#11. I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!

Anne Frank

#12. As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

Andy Goldsworthy

#13. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Anne Frank

#14. I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

David Nicholls

#15. No, I'm not afraid, except when it comes to things about myself, but I'm working on that.

Anne Frank

#16. Forgiving is divine. Plead for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to forgive wrongs, to overcome faults, and to strengthen relationships.

Dallin H. Oaks

#17. I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.

Anne Frank

#18. He smiled his barbarian's smile. "Keep looking at me like that, Emmie love, and I will be bothering you again in a trice.

Grace Burrowes

#19. I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

Taylor Swift

#20. I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,
each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#21. What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

Anne Frank

#22. An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

William Hazlitt

#23. No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other. Up to know reason has always won the battle, but will my emotions get the upper hand? Sometimes I fear they will, but more often I actually hope they do!

Anne Frank

#24. You moved too much like a hunter, padding silently next to the row of plastic plants as you made your line toward me.

Lucy Christopher

#25. I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself.

Anne Frank

#26. People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order.

Anne Frank