Banu Quotes & Sayings

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh. — Nikki Giovanni

What have you known of loss
That makes you different from other men?
- The Epic of Gilgamesh — Aga Shahid Ali

He'd made a complete ninny of himself. Wentworth probably thought he'd never been kissed before. Which couldn't be farther from the truth. Colton had been kissed at least three times just last season. — J.L. Langley

They are yours, but you don't understand them," snapped Reza. "Only Adam was given true intellect, and only the banu adam have the power to call things by their right names. What you call the bird king and the hind and the stag - these are only symbols to disguise a hidden message, just as a poet may write a ghazal about a toothless lion to criticize a weak king. Hidden in your stories is the secret power of the unseen." The stories are their own message, said the thing, with something like a sigh. That's the secret. — G. Willow Wilson

Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice. — Winna Efendi

And, they would still be alive today ... If they hadn't died, that is — Rotraut Susanne Berner

Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality — Thrity Umrigar

These are not the banu adam you're looking for. — G. Willow Wilson

My generation is under-entertained. — Dave Chappelle

If someone asks you to make a cup of coffee, make the best cup of coffee they've ever had, because why would they trust you with anything else if you can't do that? No task is too small. — Sara Haines

Peter of Blois, a medieval theologian who died nearly three hundred years before Luther was born, expressed a sense of gratitude for the Christian writers of antiquity which should also characterize our attitude toward the reformers of the sixteenth century: "We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were, from death to renewed life. — Timothy George

Neither of us deserves tomorrow. — Parke Godwin

Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead. — David Coleman

Making judgements about other people requires that we understand where they are coming from;their motivations and their fears. Only then can we claim to know them. — Caroline Adhiambo Jakob

Today. Not a long walk but a real one. Stephen thinks he'll — William Kent Krueger

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
and stuff me so full of our infected child
that I turn invisible, but married,
at last. — Anne Sexton

poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker — Lewis Carroll