Vistula Quotes

#1. What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

Gunter Grass

#2. Several congregations had received permission to build churches before Danzig Mennonites were permitted to do so. Thus, in the village of Montau in the vicinity of Kulm, Mennonites were allowed to build their first church in the Vistula valley as early as 1586.8

Peter J. Klassen

#3. There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

#4. She turns to look down at the tiered vineyards and, beyond, the vignette of Florence in the valley as if scooped up on a spoon. Its domes and spires and rooftops appearing to float on a tide of unearthly mist as inviolate and inaccessible as a private longing.

Glenn Haybittle

#5. The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Umberto Eco

#6. I began to forget myself
in the middle
of sentences.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Fabian continued,

Falko Rademacher

#8. I know most people would say we're just kids, or to young too know what love is. But screw that. I've known you my whole entire life. We have shared everything together.

Jasinda Wilder

#9. People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

Gloria Steinem

#10. You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Bing Crosby

#11. We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

Ray Nagin

#12. Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm.

Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

#13. Were Wilde's panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place

Jamie O'Neill

#14. You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

Dick Latvala

#15. People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall ... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

Tom Waits

#16. Life develops what it demands.

Dan Millman