Vel D'hiv Quotes

#1. There had been over four thousand Jewish children penned in the Vel' d'Hiv', aged between two and twelve. Most of the children were French, born in France. None of them came back from Auschwitz.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#2. You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name."
I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading.
Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#3. When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#4. We don't know whether they're going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.

Clark Ashton Smith

#5. ...I touch Vel's arm to stay him. He sits down on the bed beside me, head cocked in inquiry. Thank you, I write. Vel rises and performs a lovely wa. White wave will never forsake brown bird.

Ann Aguirre

#6. That's when I realize - he's afraid of me every bit as much as he is of Vel. We're like the wicked witch and her demon familiar or something.

Ann Aguirre

#7. Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

Felix Dennis

#8. Each soul or entity will and does return, or cycle, as does nature in its manifestations about man; thus leaving, making or presenting-as it were-those infallible, indelible truths that it -Life-is continuous.

Edgar Cayce

#9. Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

Honorius Augustodunensis

#10. Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

Mike Watt

#11. That's why I'm very wise [in] the way I choose the remixes 'cuz I know that the song has to transcend well. You already have a base, instead of me just doing my own production and I don't have to start from scratch.

Cedric Gervais

#12. Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

Tacitus

#13. I live
I fight
I bleed
I die
For love.
I am Fey"

~I am Fey, a warrior's poem by Evanaris vel Bahr

C.L. Wilson

#14. Vel once told me that the heart isn't like a cup of water. You can't drain it. It's more like an endless well, and the more you love, the more it pumps out.

Ann Aguirre

#15. Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.

Gary Snyder

#16. Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
[Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

Ovid

#17. Not all failures are failures as not all successes are successes! Arise! Always, a better one will be around the next corner! When one door closes another one opens!" commanded Goddess.

Vel

#18. If we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

Augustine Of Hippo

#19. The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
[Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]

Tacitus

#20. Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level - and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.

John P. Kotter

#21. No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be.

Joyce Carol Oates

#22. Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

Desiderius Erasmus

#23. Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow.
This was going to be a night.

Maggie Stiefvater