Quotables

“Take these sunflower seeds and put them in your pocket, so at least flowers will grow when you all lie down here [to die].”

UKRAINIAN WOMAN to armed Russian soldier.

“These are among the darkest hours for Europe since World War II.”

European Union foreign policy chief JOSEP BORRELL, while promising the most serious sanctions against Russia ever levied by the EU.

“We now have war in Europe, on a scale and of a type we thought belonged to history.”

NATO Secretary General JENS STOLTENBERG in a press briefing.

“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”

Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY turning down an offer from the U.S. of evacuation from the Ukraine capital city of Kyiv.

“If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.”

Dr. PAUL FARMER in his book In the Company of the Poor: Conversations With Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez. Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, died on Feb. 21 in Rwanda.

“He just sits there and eats. He doesn’t attack them. He doesn’t growl. He doesn’t make rude faces.”

ANN BRYANT, executive director of the Bear League, a wildlife rescue service, describing the gentle giant, Hank the Tank, a 500-pound black bear that has broken into at least 28 homes in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., since last summer.