Bongolava Quotes & Sayings

If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow. — Rita Williams-Garcia

The only groups I willingly joined were spontaneous, short-lived, and usually game-playing. — Meredith Marple

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. — Henry David Thoreau

I sent a lot of the e-mails out to venues and tried to get shows and tried to get people interested in it. It can be a tough thing, because you know these people at venues are getting e-mails like that every day, but I think just my experience in working in running a radio station. — Chris Baio

I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead. — Nadine Gordimer

You go from Pampers to Depends! — Willard Scott

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system. — Henry Mayhew

I was eighteen years old, and I thought I loved him. I should have known, but I didn't.
And I don't deserve to be abused for it. Judged for it. Called names.
I don't deserve to have my life ruined. — Robin York

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good. — Savannah Guthrie

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini

The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice) ... the debauching of agriculture to a gross money-getting concern: these particular aspects of a vast and voracious concentration upon profits are so many illustrations of our sinning confusion of values. — Russell Kirk

No buddy is perfect — Saji Ijiyemi

I had to hold my tongue from since, when I got here til when I was about 22 years old. I ain't holding my tongue no more. So it's best that I don't get no manager, don't get no promoter cos' they're the people tryna tell me what do. — Roy Jones Jr.

What we see here (and in our lives) is that love inspires what the law demands - the law prescribes good works, but only grace can produce them. Gratitude, generosity, honesty, compassion, acts of mercy, and self-sacrifice (all requirements of the law) spring unsummoned from a forgiven heart. This is how God works on us. He picks us, the least deserving, out of the crowd, insists upon being in a relationship with us, and creates in us a new heart, miraculously capable of pleasing Him. — Tullian Tchividjian