Avogadrov Quotes & Sayings

Africa will get nowhere until we have mechanics ... Mechanics are the first stone in the building. Then there are other people on top. Doctors. Nurses. Teachers. But the whole thing is built on mechanics. That is why it is important to teach young people to be mechanics. — Alexander McCall Smith

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor, — Jon Stewart

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded. — Lars Ulrich

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because ... he has no idea. — Dr. Dre

Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder. — Paul Engle

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California. — Lou Holtz

Everybody have own life don't copy anyone's life style make your own. — AbdulNasir

Those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible. — Mary Collyer

The mystery of the ascension is of course just that, a mystery. It demands that we think what is, to many today, almost unthinkable: that when the Bible speaks of heaven and earth it is not talking about two localities related to each other within the same space-time continuum or about a nonphysical world contrasted with a physical one but about two different kinds of what we call space, two different kinds of what we call matter, and also quite possibly (though this does not necessarily follow from the other two) two different kinds of what we call time. — N. T. Wright

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal. — Nawal El Saadawi

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught. — Anthony Kennedy

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end. — John Updike

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. — Thomas Jefferson

She looked at Woolf. "There's some kind of ... thing."
"That sentence wasn't as helpful as you probably intended it to be," said Marcus. — Dan Wells

I have always been interested in witchcraft and superstition, but have never had much traffic with ghosts, so I began asking people everywhere what they thought about such things, and I began to find out that there was one common factor - most people have never seen a ghost, and never want or expect to, but almost everyone will admit that sometimes they have a sneaking feeling that they just possibly could meet a ghost if they weren't careful - if they were to turn a corner too suddenly, perhaps, or open their eyes too soon when they wake up at night, or go into a dark room without hesitating first. — Shirley Jackson