spoken quotes

Glorious things are spoken of thee,O city of God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 87:3.

There are people not spoken about, people not written about, people whose name is a way of saying they are not there. Hibakusha, atomic victimsthe scarred who carry our scars.

- Maggie Gee
  Of the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Burning Book, ch.1.

Self-respect†comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments in quiet places when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the

- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Soviet  politician,  notorious  for  his   austere  and  humourless demeanour.   As   Foreign   Minister   (1957^85)   he   influenced Soviet relations with theWest during the ColdWar. President in 1985, he was replaced by Gorbachev.

They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends, (Lamps for my gloom, handsguiding where I stumble,) Quoting, for shallow conversational ends, What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered† How can they use such names and be not humble?

- Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
  The Heart'sJourney, pt.15,'Grandeur of Ghosts'.