Henrik Pontoppidan Quotes

#1. Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.

James Cameron

#2. One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of Fredericia. In 1863, my father was transferred to Randers, another Jutland town, where a year later, at the age of six, I experienced the invasion of the allied Prussian and Austrian armies.

Henrik Pontoppidan

#3. I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

Edouard Vuillard

#4. 'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

Enoch Powell

#5. Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

Kim Wright

#6. I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.

Henrik Pontoppidan

#7. And now it appears to me that the tale I have to tell, spanning a million years, doesn't change all that much from beginning to end. In the beginning, as in the end, I find myself speaking of human beings, regardless of their brain size, as fisherfolk.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#8. My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

Henrik Pontoppidan

#9. They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.

James L. Buckley

#10. Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,
whither it flows back again.

John Sterling

#11. Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

Albert Einstein

#12. Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

Davy Crockett

#13. After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest.

Henrik Pontoppidan

#14. I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Timothy Leary

#15. The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#16. Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Frederick Buechner

#17. The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did it establish its right to exist.

James A. Michener

#18. What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

Alfred De Vigny