Quotes About Archduke Franz Ferdinand

#1. ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND. 1863-1914. LLIE LIGHTLY UPON HIM EARTH, THO' HE / LAID MANY A HEAVY BURDEN UPON THEE.

John Green

#2. SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans, Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

Drake

#4. From a withered tree, a flower blooms

Gautama Buddha

#5. He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.

Nick Harkaway

#6. Lo, and I have discovered
how soft bloom
turns to green fruit,
which turns to sweet fruit.
Lo, and I have discovered
all winds blow cold
at last,
and the leaves,
so pretty, so many,
vanish
in the great, black
packet of time

Mary Oliver

#7. When I said you weren't getting kissed tonight, I meant it. But dammit, Sky. I had no idea how fucking difficult you would make it.

Colleen Hoover

#8. If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

Mario Andretti