Backlines Quotes & Sayings

My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the "backlines," where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point. — Zainab Salbi

I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking. — John Green

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms? — Calvin Trillin

In one sense, all causes of a problem are 'current', although many of them represent the residue of earlier learning or unprocessed memories. — Richard S. Hallam

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. — Neil Gaiman

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. — William Butler Yeats

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability. — Zainab Salbi