Quotes About The Romanovs

#1. 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

#2. Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim
At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.

Andrew Jackson Downing

#3. You needn't ever make mountains out of molehills again. You have misjudged yourself. You are not who you think you are.

Carrie Fisher

#4. 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

#5. Obviously I am not happy but they can throw what they want at me, I will come back stronger.

Lewis Hamilton

#6. Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

Markus Zusak

#7. We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that
just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. 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

#10. When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

Liam Payne

#11. I'm yours," I whisper. "All yours, Ryder. Use me. Fuck me. Hurt me. I don't care. Just make me yours.

Monica Murphy

#12. 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

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

Suzy Menkes

#14. Upon entering, 'Your room,' be surrounded by the things you love: pictures, light, paintings, photos, books, whatever.

Garry Fitchett

#15. I always wear the same thing onstage.

Patti Smith

#16. 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

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

Sarah Miller

#18. Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

Barney Frank

#19. Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.

Tad Williams

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

Robert Alexander

#21. From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.

Ram Dass

#22. A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

Anuj

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

Sarah Miller