Quotes About Himmel

#1. Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.
'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.'
... from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.

Markus Zusak

#2. Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.

Markus Zusak

#3. Now more than ever, 33 Himmel Street was a place of silence, and it did not go unnoticed that the Duden Dictionary was completely and utterly mistaken, especially with its related words.
Silence was not quiet or calm, and it was not peace.

Markus Zusak

#4. Papa- the accordionist- and Himmel Street.

One could not exist without the other, because for Liesel, both were home.

Markus Zusak

#5. He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.

Markus Zusak

#6. In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring to beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them
until one last time, when he gathered himself to his feet ...

Markus Zusak

#7. Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#8. A small, sad hope
No one wanted to bomb Himmel Street. No one would bomb a place named after heaven, would they? Would they?

Markus Zusak

#9. There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.

Rick Moranis

#10. Max, Hans, and Rosa I cannot account for, but I know that Liesel Meminger was thinking that if the bombs ever landed on Himmel Street, not only did Max have less chance of survival than everyone else, but he would die completely alone.

Markus Zusak

#11. Papa grinned and pointed at the girl. "Book, sandpaper, pencil," he ordered her, "and accordion!" once she was already gone. Soon, they were on Himmel Street, carrying the words, the music, the washing.

Markus Zusak

#12. ... it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.
The sky was dripping.
Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed.

Markus Zusak

#13. As knowing God becomes more important to you, you will stop thinking about discouragements and persecutions; you will stop worrying altogether

Sunday Adelaja

#14. You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Bernard Berenson

#15. In the process of looking at broken paths, we often forget the lights that illuminates that path.

Alok Jagawat

#16. If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

Robert E.Lee

#17. The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air.

Markus Zusak

#18. I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

Jude Law

#19. No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

Erwin Leo Himmel