Gerd Von Rundstedt Quotes

#1. If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#2. The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#3. An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

E.F. Schumacher

#4. Strange, she thinks, how vulnerable the back of your neck feels when you listen to silence.

Glenn Haybittle

#5. Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#6. Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#7. It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#8. Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

John Wesley

#9. The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#10. Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things - like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day - that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.

Sarah Dessen

#11. Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. we have all the evidence we need in our immediate experience and that only a deliberate refusal to "look" is responsible for atheism of any variety.

Antony Flew

#13. Make peace, you fools!

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#14. Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

Charles Churchill

#15. The body

whips the soul. In its great desire
it demands the elixir

In the roar of spring,
transmutations.

Charles Olson