Top 30 Florian Quotes
#1. My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.
Paul Smith
#2. If retirement requires a certain degree of peace of mind and an easy conscience, Victor Florian did not appear to have much of either. He held an unlit cigar in his mouth and had more hair in each eyebrow that most people have on their head.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#4. Passion is very important; if you don't love what you do then you're probably doing the wrong job.
Kenny Florian
#5. No Son [ ... ] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.
Ruta Sepetys
#6. She must have been a nurse. She looked a few years older than me. Pretty. Naturally pretty, the type that's still attractive, even more so, when she's filthy.
Ruta Sepetys
#8. Politician? Me? Do I look like a big mouth with large pockets?
Florian Armas
#9. I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
Friedrich St. Florian
#12. Stand still for a while
Our blood entered this soil
But we straightened up again
Miroslav Florian
#14. What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.
Ruta Sepetys
#15. In the end, the tenses of the verbs settled into a common groove, the persons of the narrators, first and third (the latter with so many variants and identities), became one, and events thronged toward a day that began uncertainly and remained undecided, with a light gray film covering the sky.
Filip Florian
#16. I just get excited ... like a painter with a blank canvas.
Kenny Florian
#17. Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
Florian Znaniecki
#18. Knowledge: knowledge can be dangerous, dangerous for you or for others interacting with you, therefore again dangerous for you. Always treat it with respect.
Florian Armas
#21. The couple's love, long the unrivalled source of high-society conversation, collective rumor, and feminine envy, was transformed into an insignificant particle, caught up, along with millions of other particles, in chaotic motion. It was not a case of Brownian motion. It was a case of war.
Filip Florian
#22. I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.
Friedrich St. Florian
#23. The most important thing about a fighter is something you can't see, and that's his heart.
Kenny Florian
#24. That is the delusion of which I speak! You wish the joys of true love upon every milkmaid and stable boy in your land, and yet you consign yourself and another to lives of pure misery that you might possess a well-proportioned ballroom.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#25. I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse
Kenny Florian
#26. The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
Friedrich St. Florian
#27. We all could be great, but we have to be open our mind to the way in which we could.
Kenny Florian
#28. The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
Friedrich St. Florian
#29. Cultural shock' is an academic word for 'I don't like it here'.
Florian Coulmas
#30. I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?
Friedrich St. Florian
