Binti Jua Quotes & Sayings

Everyone in the tribe believed in life after death and the spirit's ability to be reborn and live again in a new body. The undying soul was unquestioned. Did not the leaves fall off the tree and become part of the soil that nourished the tree which spouted new leaves? — M.J. Rose

Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true. — M.F. Moonzajer

I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury. — Christopher McDougall

We never worry about the big things, just the small things. — Travis Barker

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else. — Jack Nicholson

On August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate exhibit at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Reacting immediately, Binti scooped up the boy and carried him to safety. She sat down on a log in a stream, cradling the boy in her lap, giving him a few gentle back pats before taking him to the waiting zoo staff. This simple act of sympathy, captured on video and shown around the world, touched many hearts, and Binti was hailed as a heroine. It was the first time in U.S. history that an ape figured in the speeches of leading politicians, who held her up as a model of compassion. — Frans De Waal

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. — Henry David Thoreau

The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert. — Dumitru Tepeneag

We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence. — Edward Everett

Men like women who know how to be subtle. — Nicholas Sparks

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken. — Mahatma Gandhi