6 Quotes by Belarusian authors

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Belarusian sayings and lines carry the hush of birch forests and the persistence of marshland paths. They prize modesty, kinship, and work done without spectacle, threaded with dry irony and a tender regard for the everyday. Voices from Kupala to Alexievich speak of memory, endurance, and the quiet stubbornness of dignity, bread-and-salt warmth beside hard winters and history’s weight. Proverbs tilt toward earth, weather, and neighbors; poems turn inward, wary and luminous, where melancholy and hope share a bench like old friends.

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"When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian

"My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian

"It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian

"On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian

"My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian

"My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life"

Immanuel Velikovsky, Historian