silent witnesses Quotes

There was no one left to speak for me.

Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God in his heaven who sees everything. A kitchen chair, a clothes hanger, a half-filled ashtray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can serve perfectly well as an unforgetting witness to our every deed.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than the massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

If only those old walls could talk...how boring they would be.