Top 17 Quotes About Rangoon
#1. O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.
Adoniram Judson
#3. We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.
Adoniram Judson
#4. Millard! Who's the prime minister?"
"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?"
"What's the capital of Burma?"
"Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?"
"Good! When's your birthday?"
"Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!
Ransom Riggs
#5. I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'
Adoniram Judson
#6. I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.
Frederick Lenz
#7. We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening.
Adoniram Judson
#8. A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.
Adoniram Judson
#9. Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.
Bryant McGill
#10. People who don't know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don't know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.
Young-Ha Kim
#11. Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
Ildar Abdrazakov
#12. Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred, and a Thousand more.
Diana Gabaldon
#13. I have tried to live with women who share a similar sensibility to mine, with predictably disastrous consequences, but the opposite route seems every bit as hopeless.
Nick Hornby
#14. Victims of violent crime are not always believed ...
[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]
Natascha Kampusch
#15. The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
Swami Vivekananda
#17. The only way to get something to turn up when you need it is to need it to turn up.
Terry Pratchett
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