Bassant Ahmed Quotes & Sayings

Because I'm not a white boy, I'm not white enough for white folks. And because I wasn't born into the middle class, I'm not completely accepted by the mainstream. And sometimes, if you can believe it, I'm not ghetto enough for the mainstream or middle class enough for the ghetto or black enough for white folks! — Vershawn Ashanti Young

You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything. — Sheila Johnson

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth

Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God! — Pope Francis

The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive. — Robert Southey

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world. — Solange Knowles

Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you? — Tate Hallaway

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it. — Pope John Paul II

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself. — Evan Esar

The Mouser sighed. The moment had come, he knew, as it always did, when outward circumstances and inner urges commanded an act, when curiosity and fascination tipped the scale of caution, when the lure of a vision and an adventure became so great and deep-hooking that he must respond to it or have his inmost self-respect eaten away. — Fritz Leiber

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires! — George Herbert

The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read. — Robert Munsch