Adelmo Francisco Quotes & Sayings

Like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space. — Liu Yang

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth. — Plato

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education. — Austin Kleon

I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews. — Lenny Henry

Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it. — A.H. Scott

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The route for the refugees currently goes through Greece and the Balkans or through Italy; if there were a crisis in north-eastern Europe, Poland might just as well be affected. In this case we are dealing with mechanisms that we do not control. We need to change that. — Paolo Gentiloni

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't. — Janeane Garofalo

AESTHETICS OF OPERA
Don't sing an aria
To someone who can't
Sing one back. — Kenneth Koch

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that. — Brian Keene

I can't go on like this, I told myself. And You can't possibly want me to feel this way, I demanded of God. God didn't argue. Forced to choose between my nostalgia for the faith of my childhood and my dignity as an adult, I put down the doll and drove away. — Joanna Brooks

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas. — Paulo Coelho

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you. — Paul Ryan