Quote by George Santayana (about War, Memorial Day, Volkstrauertag)

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana

War Memorial Day Volkstrauertag

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

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Patriotism

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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Family

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

Harvey Dent in Batman - The Dark Knight

Julius Caesar Rome

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health. What have the Romans ever done for us?

Reg in Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Rome

Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar.

Gracchus in Gladiator

Freedom Foolishness Rome

When most first think of the word "empire", we think of the big one: Star Wars! Or Rome. And this is history, so it's Rome.

Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1

Rome Quotes about Star Wars

Teutoburg Forest, 9 AD. Three Roman legions are advancing towards Germania. The largest army in the world is met with many quarreling tribes. The Romans called them "barbarians". Their encounter changed the course of history.

Barbarians - Season 1 Episode 1

Rome

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Robert De Niro

Italy Rome

Madrid is a big city. It's very dynamic and cosmopolitan.

Xabi Alonso

Madrid

Playing for Real Madrid is like touching the sky, Real Madrid has always been my first choice as a team and Madrid has always been my favourite as a city.

Juanito

Real Madrid Madrid

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Madrid - which is kinda the same.

Madrid

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

War Warriors

In every grave, there's the history of a lifetime.

Heinrich Heine

Memorial Day Volkstrauertag

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

Death Allerheiligen Volkstrauertag

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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