Boyesen Quotes

#1. and that their conquering hordes spread northward, subduing the Finns and Lapps, whom they found in possession of the land, partly exterminating them, partly forcing them up into the barren mountains of the extreme North.

Hjalmar H. Boyesen

#2. When you fight for someone you love, fight and fight, don't give up, until you can't fight anymore.

Gail McHugh

#3. On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

Neal Ascherson

#4. I've read all the books but one
Only remains sacred: this
Volume of wonders, open
Always before my eyes.

Kathleen Raine

#5. Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

Rudyard Kipling

#6. Youth faces forward, impatient of the present, panting to anticipate the future. But we who have crossed a certain sad meridian, we turn our gaze backward,and tell the relentless gods what we would sacrifice to recover a little of the past...

Henry Harland

#7. Love is like fire.
Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

#8. The Prodigal Son didn't repent of his sin because he got tired of living like and with the pigs. He repented because God gave him eyes to see.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield