Quotes About Anne Frank's Life

#1. I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if ... if only there were no other people in the world.

Anne Frank

#2. If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

Maurice Sendak

#3. His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the attic, and Anne Frank would be gone, and he could go on with his life, Anne-free. One hundred percent Frankless. Now with Less Genocide.

Shalom Auslander

#4. The firm has two cats, one for the warehouse and one for the attic. Now it occasionally happen that the two cats met; and the result was always a terrific fight. The aggressor was always the warehouse cat yet it was always the attic cat who managed to win - just like among nations.

Anne Frank

#5. Facts themselves do not give knowledge

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

Anne Frank

#7. Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Philip Pullman

#8. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

#9. The last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

Madame De Stael

#10. We have the opportunity to get an education and make something of ourselves. We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but we have to earn it. And that is something you can't achieve by taking the easy ways out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy.

Anne Frank

#11. Make the most of your carefree young life as you can.

Anne Frank

#12. Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

Anne Frank

#13. I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

Tim Daly

#14. Paper is more patient than man.

Anne Frank

#15. Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!

Anne Frank

#16. With great influence comes great responsibility.

Melanie Iglesias

#17. Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Anne Frank

#18. One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

Anne Frank

#19. Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

Mat McNerney

#20. This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war) ... Everyone was saying ... But the British Prime Minister said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Do you see the difference?

Anne Frank

#21. I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace.

Otto Frank

#22. I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.

Anne Frank

#23. The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Anne Frank

#24. Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he's discovered a girl; for the first time he's seen that even the biggest pests also have an inner self and a heart, and are transformed as soon as they're alone with you.

Anne Frank

#25. How you handle Failure, determines your success.

How you rise after a fall is going to define you.

I don't care how dedicated you are, I want to know how OBSESSED can you be.

I don't LOVE what I do, I LIVE it.

Harsh Malik

#26. Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

Dave Brat

#27. Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

Sextus Propertius

#28. The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.

Anne Frank

#29. Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

Swami Vivekananda

#30. Misfortunes never come singly.

Anne Frank