Quotes About Normans

#1. as the descendants of the Normans finally amalgamated with the English natives, the Anglo-Saxon language reasserted itself; but in its poverty it had to borrow hundreds of French words (literary, intellectual, and cultural) before it could become the language of literature.

Richard A. LaFleur

#2. The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

John Lothrop Motley

#3. Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

Nostradamus

#4. That is thy home burning. That is the Normans' work, and never thee forget it!

Rosemary Sutcliff

#5. It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans ... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

Julie Garwood

#6. The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans.

Mark Kurlansky

#7. Normans both; but Norman or Saxon, the hospitality of Rotherwood must not be impeached: they are welcome, since they have chosen to halt; more welcome would they have been to have ridden further on their way.

Walter Scott

#8. Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians.

Fulcher Of Chartres

#9. English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.

Bryan Maloney

#10. The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

Caleb Cushing

#11. Zandy Brandy scented lotion - like the Normans, drunk and with soft hands!

A.J. Lauer

#12. At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

Nostradamus

#13. Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

Rick Santorum

#14. You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.

Jeff Weiner

#15. This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.

Wilt Chamberlain

#16. Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying.

Angela Quarles

#18. Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.

David Byrne