Barraband Parrots Quotes & Sayings

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected. — Jimmy Carter

This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad

I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder. — Ogden Nash

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who's asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa. — Angela Davis

When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression. — Charles Spurgeon

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. — Mark Twain

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage. — Vladimir Nabokov

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs. — William Allen White

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be. — Timothy McVeigh

If we expect all men to have six-packs and biceps, we can't get mad when they expect us to be stick-figures with DD boobs. — Holly Bourne