Quotes About Miep Gies

#1. Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.

Blake Lewis

#2. It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, never to contradict anybody.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

Nancy Reagan

#4. I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

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#5. But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

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#6. Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard,

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#7. Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

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#8. We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

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#9. Cars frighten me. They look vicious. Growling, screeching, fast-moving assassins.
-Bec

Darren Shan

#10. An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

Thomas Leonard

#11. Jan Gies won't need to. He'll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep

Anne Frank

#12. Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.

Shalom Auslander

#13. I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

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#14. People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

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#15. Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

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#16. You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

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#17. I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

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#18. I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

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#19. Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

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#20. I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.

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#21. Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.

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