top of page
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer

"The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present."

Standard 
 Customized
"The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present."

Exlpore more History quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The past is not a package one can lay away."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth."

Explore more quotes by Eoin Colfer

Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Excuse me, Tex,' the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babies being born in this hospital. We wouldn't want the first sound they hear to be your painful howling. There could be lawsuits."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Orion nodded, then asked, 'Dwarf cheese?'Cheese made by dwarfs.'Oh, said Orion, relieved. 'They make it. It's not actually . . .'No. What a horrible thought.'Exactly."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Me,' Artemis blurted. 'I'm the nut.'Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell.'I'm the nut!' Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"Good. Illegal is always faster."
Quote_1.png
Eoin Colfer
"A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old."
bottom of page