Quotes from James Conroyd Martin

What is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.

Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.

Sometimes you must put yourself in the way of destiny.

If there is no wind, you must learn to row.   —Polish Proverb

Life is like the moon— now dark, now full.   —Polish Proverb

No man knows courage," his father had told him, "who has not known fear.

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love.   —Polish Proverb

Push not the river; it will flow on its own accord.   —Polish Proverb

Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.   —Polish Proverb

Follow your heart. Indulge your whims. They are usually correct. And when they are not, do not allow the world to judge you overly much.

She would say that what is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.

A liar can go around the world, but can never come back.

Through bravery you may win a war, and through bravery you may lose. -Polish Proverb

The roots of learning are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.   —Polish Proverb

A human being is a part of the whole called by us "Universe"—a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Albert Einstein

Few Polish citizens left on the Praga side of the River Vistula were allowed to live. The burning of the bridge was fortuitous, however, for the Russians were held at bay, allowing the night to cool their red rage. In the morning, the English ambassador to Poland and the Papal Nuncio crossed the river and secured from Suvorov assurance that the capital would be taken peacefully.

There's no key to the woods and fields.

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love. —Polish Proverb

1683 he aided the legendary King Jan Sobieski and much of Christian Europe in keeping Vienna—and therefore Eastern Europe—from the Turks.

Jurata, Queen of the Baltic.

and wife are two windows, each letting light into a home, light that seamlessly blends, brightening and sanctifying the marriage

There's no key to the woods and fields.

A child, she reasoned, does not pick its parents nor the circumstances of its birth. A