Conservaria Africana Quotes & Sayings

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray. — George W. Bush

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion. — Jeff Lindsay

She was in his heart, in his very soul, and the love he felt for her was so much more than that of an adolescent boy for his first girlfriend. — Carla Cassidy

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips. — Joe Frazier

Believe in yourself and the world will follow suit. — Tadahiko Nagao

Thank you. Thank you, Noah, thank you, thank you.
By sundown, Thea could throw the damned thing with deadly accuracy. At bedtime, she asked if Noah would mind if she slept with it under her pillow every night.
He assured her he would not.
* when Thea gets a knife from Noah — Grace Burrowes

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
from Disappearance of Literature — Mark Twain

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy. — Michel De Montaigne

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned. — John Steinbeck

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing. — William Goldman

So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no? — Jodi Picoult

Research by James Poterba at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that the wealth of the U.S.'s elderly is highly skewed. About half of retirees have little or no financial wealth when they retire and depend almost entirely on Social Security for their income. — Greg Ip

It was too much.
The comfortable people made comfortable jokes
about weather and things
but I sat mostly silent
saying a word or so when necessary
a word or so
trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool
and feeling terrible
And I was numb,
numb again,
numb
again
again and again,
numbness and pain swelling in
me. — Charles Bukowski