Noon Quote by Mervyn Peake

“Do we say to the wind, do you wish not to blow? Do we say to the thunder, would you rather be silent? No.…

— Amanda Grange

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

— Alek Wek

“Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all…

— Margaret George

“Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen. After that,…

— Charles Frazier

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

“As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is…

— Ilhan Omar

“A kid ran into the darkness. His clothing was on fire; the flames streamed behind him as he fled screaming.”

— Michael Grant

“Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.”

— Brian Francis Slattery

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw…

— Philip Yancey

“The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien