Gies Quotes

...beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep. ~ Joseph Gies

This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab. ~ Irvine Welsh

Jan Gies won't need to. He'll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep ~ Anne Frank

Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not on open shelves, but in locked chests. ~ Joseph Gies

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room. ~ Miep Gies

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life. ~ Miep Gies

People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don't know how to apply the principle of increase ~ Sunday Adelaja

Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access. ~ Shalom Auslander

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you. ~ Miep Gies

As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him. ~ Joseph Gies

The last entry in Anne's diary is dated August 1, 1944. On August 4, 1944, the eight people hiding in the Secret Annex were arrested. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, the two secretaries working in the building, found Anne's diaries strewn all over the floor. Miep Gies tucked them away in a desk drawer for safekeeping. After the war, when it became clear that Anne was dead, she gave the diaries, unread, to Anne's father, Otto Frank. ~ Anne Frank

At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side only. On that side the cloth falls to the floor, doubling as a communal napkin...there are several kinds of knives...but no forks. ~ Joseph Gies

Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n аw. That's it; end ay fuckin story. ~ Irvine Welsh

Gillie was grinning at the boy's indignant anger. He put a hand on the pages shoulder and looked coldly at Augusta. "Do you call my page a liar, old woman? And who are you to speak of this lady as your charge? My page is no liar, just as Thursey is not your charge. Not in any way. She is your landlord, for it is her inn you occupy. And it is to her you will answer for its keeping. She is beholden to no one, unless it would be the people of Gies in the same manner as I am - for she may be their princess soon. If she is willing," he added gently. ~ Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats. ~ Miep Gies

I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." - ROMAN DE RENARD ~ Frances Gies

I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice. ~ Miep Gies

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done. ~ Miep Gies

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need. ~ Miep Gies

Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me. ~ Robert Burns

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. ~ Miep Gies

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage. ~ Miep Gies