Grettir Quotes

#1. About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#2. There was a man named Ofeig, nicknamed Grettir. He was the son of Einar, the son of Olvir the Babyman. He was a brother of Oleif the Broad, the father of Thormod Shaft. Another son of Olvir was named Steinolf, the father of Una, whom Thorbjorn the Salmon-man married.

Unknown

#3. I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#4. Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Benjamin Disraeli

#5. 'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!

Jane Hamilton

#6. Prussians were singularly well prepared in other areas as well. They invented the "dog tag" in 1870: an oval disc worn by every soldier bearing his name, regiment, and place of residence.

Geoffrey Wawro

#7. It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?' ... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.

Cynthia Kenyon

#8. BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

Nikki Giovanni

#9. supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness. 'I am he and / He is me: / Spring nightfall.' Abandon the self, and there

Haruki Murakami

#10. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown

#11. You ask me what life is? It is like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and nothing more is known.

Anton Chekhov