Giono Quotes

#1. Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends - arrow, road, man's life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable - sun, world, God.

Jean Giono

#2. Helena dreamed about the keepers of the fire. The poorest old women had stored it away in suburban kitchens and had only to blow very gently on their palms to rekindle the flame

Eduardo Galeano

#3. It is a given that we will all make some mistakes in life. It is a given that you will make inappropriate choices for inappropriate reasons. They will in no way affect your worth. No matter what you say or what you do, nothing can minimize the worth of your being. Your worth is a gift from God.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.

Jean Giono

#5. Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.

Mao Zedong

#6. She had this amazing capacity to turn sadness into anger and anger into action, which meant nothing ever kept her down for long.

Ransom Riggs

#7. Love is a pathway of many colors and dead ends. But when the right path is chosen, the sights are amazing.

Tash

#8. Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Jean Giono

#9. I can see, for just a moment, his beating heart in his ribcage, and then that, too, withers and dies, the useless, blackened lump tapping against his ribs before plopping out of his body.

Beth Revis

#10. The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

Jean Giono

#11. A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

Jean Giono

#13. Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

Jean Giono

#14. There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.

Jean Giono

#15. Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

Jean Giono

#16. In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Steve Lacy

#17. And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his heart was all reflections in which the soul of the world moved.

Jean Giono

#18. I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Jean Giono

#19. I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Jean Giono

#20. The Speed of Light: It's Not Just a Good Idea It's the Law. Unlike

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. When I play ball, I play hardball.

Kirstie Alley