Jeremias Gotthelf Quotes

#1. You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

Franklin Pierce

#2. For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.

Jeremias Gotthelf

#3. If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.

Kurt Cobain

#4. I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul.

Neil Morrissey

#5. The owl loves its nest in the ruins, The Huma revels in making kings, The falcon will not leave the King's hand, And the wagtail pleads weakness.2

Rory Stewart

#6. I don't like anyone who comes and dies in my house on purpose to annoy me," said Lord Caterham obstinately.

Agatha Christie

#7. Christine always wanted to know what was afoot, and any matter on which she was prevented from giving her opinion she took to be going badly.

Jeremias Gotthelf

#8. Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

Jeremias Gotthelf

#9. Then the green man's face grew even blacker, the red beard so red it seemed to crackle and sparkle like fir twigs on the fire; the mouth contracted to an arrow-like point before it opened to inquire in the sweetest, gentlest tones.

Jeremias Gotthelf

#10. From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.

Arj Barker

#11. The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.

Gifford Pinchot

#12. Usually the knights would build their castles above a road, just as inns are now built beside the road, the better to plunder the people going past, though admittedly in different ways.

Jeremias Gotthelf