Karen Von Blixen Finecke Quotes

#1. Give to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then ...

William Butler Yeats

#2. Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

Roman Dmowski

#3. When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Karen Blixen

#4. He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because he was free.

Victor Hugo

#5. If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? ... I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and ... toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.

George Orwell

#6. I come from, I come from a small county Outside of Washington, D.C., Called PG County. And, me, my mom, my brother, We moved so many different places growing up, And it felt like a box. Felt like there was no getting out.

Kevin Durant