Anansi And The Talking Quotes & Sayings

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting. — Bo Sanchez

Suddenly, the swan dropped down from the sky, flew low over the swamp, almost touching the water, just slow enough to have a closer look at the girl. The sight of the swan's cold eye staring straight into hers, made the girl feel exposed, hunted and found, while all those who had suddenly stopped eating fish, watched this big black thing look straight at the only person that nobody had ever bothered having a close look at. Her breathing went AWOL while her mind stitched row after row of fretting to strangle her breath: What are they thinking about me now? What did the swan have to single me out for and not anyone else standing around? What kind of premonition is this? Heart-thump thinking was really tricky for her. She feasted on a plague of outsidedness. It was always better never to have to think about what other people thought of her. — Alexis Wright

The sleeping princess is a symbol of the sleeping earth. The spell she is under is the chill of winter and the kiss of life... the kiss of the sun wakes her. — Elise Forier Edie

Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Still big-bellied with kits; — Sara Pennypacker

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods