Pro Patria Quotes

#1. Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

Edgar Lee Masters

#2. A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.

Ron Rash

#3. I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

Lasse Hallstrom

#4. Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.

Jim George

#5. In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

Gunter Grass

#6. I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

Matthew Macfadyen

#7. We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

Ray Nagin

#8. I think I think too much too.

Brian Spellman

#9. Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.

Anthony Goldbloom

#10. Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great bearded man, when a splendid looking red-Indian style man appeared at my door. I said no to his film because I knew that if I said yes, I would run off with him.

Jane Birkin

#11. When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. Who we love above all else is who we worship, and who we worship controls us.

Edward T. Welch

#13. If a Greek woman tells you to do something, you do it.

Dave Barry