"But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us."

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Source : Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

Philip Gibbs

#Sorry Quotes #War Quotes #Hate Quotes

“You can't see the forest for the trees.”
“These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.”
“The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.”

Source : "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.
“Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.”
“That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.”

Source : James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.187, Pan Macmillan
“The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.”
“I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.
“In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.”

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