Quotes About Life In Nazi Germany

#1. After experiencing life in Nazi Germany, Thomas Wolfe wrote, Here was an entire nation ... infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations.

Erik Larson

#2. Yes, I said something to him, and then I cooled him off." "Cooled? By what process?" "I knocked him halfway across Broadway and took my wife." "You did?" Wolfe scowled at him. "What's the matter with your brain? Does it leak?

Rex Stout

#3. If there was anything she had learned from her mother, it was the painful understanding that cages come in all sizes - some even have white picket fences, four walls, and a front door.

Jamie Ford

#4. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

Franco Harris

#5. It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.

Wajdi Mouawad

#6. Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

Eric Ries

#7. Weaving spiders, come not here, Hence, you long legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not here, worm nor snail, do no offense.

William Shakespeare

#8. The value of life is not in duration but in its donation.

Debasish Mridha

#9. As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live.

Alfred Nestor

#10. I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?

Marcel Ophuls

#11. I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

Victoria Pendleton

#12. What is past, one cannot change,
so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.

James Conroyd Martin

#13. Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.

Jon Stewart