Buitengracht Quotes & Sayings

It gives him an eerie feeling to sit in London reading about streets - Waalstraat, Buitengracht, Buitencingel - along which he alone, of all the people around him with their heads buried in their books, has walked. But even more than by accounts of old Cape Town is he captivated by stories of ventures into the interior, reconnaissances by ox-wagon into the desert of the Great Karoo, where a traveller could trek for days on end without clapping eyes on a living soul. Zwartberg, Leeuwrivier, Dwyka: it is his country, the country of his heart, that he is reading about. — J.M. Coetzee

Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd Oozymandias the King. — William T. Vollmann

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel

Love is how you live, not how you feel. — Vivi Monroe Congress

If you don't have a plan for inclusivity your plan is to be exclusive. — Catrice M. Jackson

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that? — Mary J. Williams

If you don't have personal goals, you're controlled by those who do. — Garrison Wynn

And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that I don't. I still believe that nothing truly bad can ever happen if my mother is around. I know it's not true. But still. It is true. — Katherine Center

You are destiny for greatness.
Your future is in the hands of the Lord. — Lailah Gifty Akita