Flanders Quotes

• El propósito de la sátira, como bien se ha dicho, es quitar el barniz de la ilusión reconfortante y la media verdad acogedora, y nuestro trabajo, tal y como yo lo veo, es volver a ponerlo en su sitio.

  Michael Flanders

  Jobs, Comforting, Purpose

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• Las alondras, aún cantando valientemente, vuelan
  Apenas se oyen entre los cañones

  John McCrae

  Arma, Canto, Amapolas

  En los campos de Flandes (1915)

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• En los campos de Flandes soplan las amapolas.

  John McCrae

  Golpe, Campos, Amapolas

  "In Flanders Fields" l. 1 (1915)

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• En los campos de Flandes soplan las amapolas Entre las cruces, fila tras fila, que marcan nuestro lugar, y en el cielo, Las alondras, aún cantando valientemente, vuelan Apenas oídas entre los cañones de abajo.

  John McCrae

  Golpe, Pistola, Cielo

  Punch 8 dic. 1915 "En los campos de Flandes"

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• Vivimos, sentimos el amanecer, vimos brillar el ocaso,
  amamos y fuimos amados, y ahora yacemos
  En los campos de Flandes.

  John McCrae

  Tumbarse, Atardecer, Amanecer

  John McCrae (2015). "In Flanders Fields and Other Poems", p.20, Dundurn.

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• Si Dios hubiera querido que voláramos, no nos habría dado el ferrocarril.

  Michael Flanders

  Given, Railway, Ifs

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• A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

  Michael Flanders

  Sloth, Ease, Indolence

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• January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.

  Michael Flanders

  Sweet, Spring, Ice

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• Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

  Michael Flanders

  Mean, Sincerity, Sincere

  "Song: "The Reluctant Cannibal"". 1991.

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• One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

  Michael Flanders

  World, Able, Today

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• I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.

  Mara Wilson

  Mom, Brother, Yelling

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Bajo el trópico se habla nuestra lengua, Y parte de Flandes ha recibido nuestro yugo.

  Edmund Waller

  Arte, yugo, lengua

  A la muerte del Lord Protector" l. 21

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• Cuando finalmente terminó la guerra (I Guerra Mundial), fue necesario que ambos bandos mantuvieran, e incluso inflaran, el mito del sacrificio para que todo el asunto no se viera como lo que era: un desperdicio sin sentido de millones de vidas. Lógicamente, si la flor de la juventud había sido cortada en Flandes, los supervivientes no eran la flor: los muertos eran superiores a los vivos traumatizados. De este modo, la destrucción virtual de una generación aumentó aún más la distancia entre los viejos y los jóvenes, entre lo oficial y lo no oficial.

  Robert Hughes

  Distancia, Guerra, Flor

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• El kitsch arquitectónico es más común en el pop comercial vernáculo, tipificado por el Big Duck de 1931 en Flanders, New York, un puesto de aves de carretera de Long Island parecido a un pato, que Venturi y Scott Brown convirtieron en objeto de culto a través de sus escritos.

  Martin Filler

  New York, Escritura, Islas

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• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best.

  T. H. White

  Daughter, Queens, Clever

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.248, Penguin

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• When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

  H. H. Asquith

  War, Army, Wire

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• Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles are used every day by the cars, and kept up, and stuff like that. The other one - it’s completely different … The best I could do would be to describe it like this - they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That’s Paris–Roubaix. It’s that bad - it’s ridiculous.

  Chris Horner

  Paris, Differences, Rocks

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• Por el mismo derecho por el que Francia se apoderó de Flandes, Lorena y Alsacia, y tarde o temprano se apoderará de Bélgica, por ese mismo derecho Alemania se apodera de Schleswig; es el derecho de la civilización frente a la barbarie, del progreso frente a la estabilidad.

  Friedrich Engels

  Agreement, Civilization, Historical

  "Karl Marx, Federico Engels: Obras Completas".

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• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

  James Connolly

  Ojo, Hombres, Manos

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• Me has enviado una yegua de Flandes.

  Enrique VIII de Inglaterra

  Mares, Women Bashing

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• In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies at the outbreak of the Great War, but it must, in their honour and fairness to their memories, be said that they were motivated by the highest purpose, and died in their tens of thousands in Flanders and Gallipoli, believing that they were giving their lives in the cause of human liberty everywhere, including Ireland.

  Sean Lemass

  Memories, War, Believe

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