… history – the lamp which illumines national character…
– Lawrence Durrell
Related Quotes:
- Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree. – GK Chesterton
- A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp. – Amit Kalantri
- We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake. – Sunday Adelaja
- People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. – Lawrence Durrell
- Art like life is an open secret. – Lawrence Durrell
- Each of our five senses contains an art. – Lawrence Durrell
- I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. – Lawrence Durrell
- Music is only love looking for words. – Lawrence Durrell
- How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. – Lawrence Durrell
- Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off. – Lawrence Durrell
- Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? – Lawrence Durrell
- An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. – Lawrence Durrell
- He who illumines one has begun illumining the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters! – Deyth Banger
- Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy. – Patrick Mendis
- My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
- Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
- History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
- You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
- My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. – Gerald Durrell
- Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. – Gerald Durrell
- Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked. – Gerald Durrell
- Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. – Mark Lawrence
- Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. – Lawrence G Lovasik
- If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A leader is a lamp not just a sign board. – Debasish Mridha
- The flame of the spirit is burning lamp. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- God’s word is lamp that lights my path. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit. – Richard Llewellyn
- Love is the light of lamp of the soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- May your lamp forever burn at night. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The lamp of light. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The sacred lamp burns to give light – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The gold, lamp, Xerxes, is probably the most important thing in your life. – Nishi Singh
- You’d be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? – Faraaz Kazi
- Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. – Bodie Thoene
- Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post-”for physical support only. – Tai Solarin
- By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. – Cormac McCarthy
- Man, made after God’s image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon. – David Brewster