Quotes About Romanovs

#1. The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

Suzy Menkes

#2. I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

Kathryn Harrison

#3. It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

Sarah Miller

#4. Oh, as the tragedies of Shakespeare have revealed, the fall of kings is but fodder for the riches entertainments.

Robert Alexander

#5. I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

Sarah Miller

#6. Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.

Sarah Miller

#7. What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.

Vaclav Klaus

#8. My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late
our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.

Sarah Miller

#9. Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.

Kano Jigoro

#10. For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.

Robert Alexander

#11. Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.

Marsha Blackburn

#12. I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

Karen White

#13. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.

Phil Robertson

#14. We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails.

Sarah Miller

#15. God's providence is never characterized
in broad generalities or pious abstractions but always in the particular, in the personal, in the recognition of grace in an unlikely time, at an unlikely place. Who could have anticipated ravens?

Eugene H. Peterson

#16. Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink ... and when it does, it has no more value in your life.

Donna Schoenrock

#17. So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.

Lawren Harris

#18. He chiseled open the fault lines in the others' personalities.

David Mitchell

#19. Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

Tyler Perry

#20. wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman,

Pearl S. Buck

#21. But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.

Bill Willingham