Lions Quotes

“You didn't always get - you almost never got - the whole story of every man, woman, or child who asked something of you in this world. What you got was the moment they stood before you. You'd have to take your chances, make your best judgment, and do whatever you were going to do.”
― Bonnie Nadzam, Lions

“Deserve has nothing to do with what we get.”
― Bonnie Nadzam, Lions

“Their mistake was not in failing to see how difficult it would be to turn the place into a garden, but in failing to see that it had already been one when they arrived.”
― Bonnie Nadzam, Lions

“Così, nelle centinaia di guerre che seguirono e durante gli anni trascorsi a vagare come migranti tra gli affamati e i senza speranza, impararono che la compassione non teme nulla e nessun pensiero la ostacola, giacché altrimenti non sarebbe compassione.”
― Bonnie Nadzam, Lions

“That long, lean frame, the patched workshirt, the steel-toed boots. And that look in his eye, as if he had seen right behind your face and into the inner workings of your brain and had decided, upon seeing everything there was to see about you, to say nothing. A nod of the head.”
― Bonnie Nadzam, Lions

“Compassion is fearless and unthinking, or it isn't compassion.”
― Bonnie Nadzam, Lions