Quotes About Europe's Beauty

#1. -Back there our sun doesn't speak.
-Where's "there," Miss Marta?
-Back there, in Europe. Here, it's different. Here, the sun moans, whispers, shouts.
-Surely-I commented delicately-the sun is always the same.
- You're wrong. There, the sun is a stone. Here it's a fruit.

Mia Couto

#2. In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

Colm Toibin

#3. Greetings. My name is Don Tillman and I am a suspected paedophile. I wish to put myself on standby for an assessment.

Graeme Simsion

#4. On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal parts-and we wanted it all.

Paula McLain

#5. Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many spiritual circumnavigators who have returned to tell the tale of the beauty beyond self.

Kathleen Dowling Singh

#6. That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

Ilka Chase

#7. The nice thing about life," said Miss Etta, "is you never know when there's going to be a party.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#8. Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

Laurette Taylor

#9. You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

Diplo

#10. I want to be the best in whatever I do.

Gilbert Arenas

#11. My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#12. When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

Origen

#13. I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.

Stephen Hunter

#14. Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

Northrop Frye

#15. I know it's hard. It's one of the hardest things there is, but you know we can't make people love us. It happens, or it doesn't.

Robert Swindells

#16. I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

Rachel Bilson

#17. The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

Charles Hodge