Sendler Quotes

#1. Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.

Marcia K. Vaughan

#2. The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

James Madison

#3. A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Helen Rowland

#4. The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

Irena Sendler

#5. People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

Irena Sendler

#6. A smile is the most pleasing sight one could behold when talking to another person.

Ronald A. Valentino

#7. A blush of breeze rose from the grass. Jacob felt as if an angel's wing had beat against his cheek. He touched his cheek slowly. He felt embarrassed by the thought.
"That I should think an angel came to me."
He wept. And, again, the brush of breeze against his cheek.

Noah Benshea

#8. Music helps not the toothache.

George Herbert

#9. I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

Irena Sendler

#10. Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

Irena Sendler

#11. Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.

Richard Diaz

#12. If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to.

Irena Sendler

#13. Empathy is the most powerful weapon [ ... ]

Augusto Boal

#14. That's how it is for women," I said, stung into honesty. "It's not what one would choose - I grant you that. But women are the very toys of fortune.

Philippa Gregory

#15. Iko held up a hand. You need a system debug if you're suggesting that I would abandon you know.

Marissa Meyer

#16. Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Lewis Carroll

#17. Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

Irena Sendler

#18. The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

Irena Sendler

#19. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

Irena Sendler

#20. Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Irena Sendler

#21. Walter: Do you see this lovely young lady sitting right here in the front row? Do you see her? Do you see her?
Jeff: Yeah.
Walter: Oh well!

Jeff Dunham