Barranquilla Carnival Quotes & Sayings

Go, sorrowing son of affliction, tell thy secrets to the Friend who sticketh closer than a brother. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is an unmistakable way. Directly or indirectly it provides the bulk of man's food, his meat, his bread, every scrap of his cereal diet. Without grass we would all starve, we and all our animals. And what a dismal place this world would be! — Hal Borland

My back pay came to $892,746,012. Not in the form of bales of currency, fortunately; on Heaven they used an electronic credit exchange, so I carried my fortune around in a little machine with a digital readout. To buy something you punched in the vendor's credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint. — Joe Haldeman

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. — Michael Stipe

On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen. — Adoniram Judson

When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard. — Matt Prokop

Humans are interdependent by choice. You have a burden of guilt, and it's brave of you to want to carry it yourself. But it's foolish not to let others help you. Give some of it away to your parents and your friends. And when they need your help, you'll be strong enough to support them, too. — Sarina Bowen

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.' — George Ayittey

In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the abstraction; we bring the abstraction down and back to its specific meaning, to the concrete; but the abstraction has helped us to make the kind of concrete we want the concrete to be. It has helped us to create - to reshape the world as we wish it to be for our purposes. — Ayn Rand

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace. — Joseph Bruchac

Few American commentators evaluated MacArthur's strategic sense at various stages in his generalship in Korea; it was instead the perception of whether he was winning or losing that mattered most to the public. — Victor Davis Hanson

You've got to build a career and a practice. — Robin Day

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried. — Yelawolf