Christchurch Quotes

#1. Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

Fay Weldon

#2. Think about the change that occurred in the 1500m at Christchurch. The 1500m was usually a slow race and then a sprint [at the finish]. But in 1974 I changed that from the beginning to the end. And not many people have thought about that.

Filbert Bayi

#3. In Christchurch, though, everything is at eye level and

Carl Nixon

#4. Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.

Gaylene Preston

#5. I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

Eleanor Catton

#6. I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Faith Evans

#7. If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings. All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment.

Frederick Lenz

#8. If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. Chapter 11 Bobby Bell

David Spada

#10. O that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end
And then the end is known.

William Shakespeare

#11. [A]ltos are walking amongst us, making life richer, though we may barely know it.

Anna George Meek

#12. Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Margaret Sackville

#13. God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.

Catherine Marshall