Dagara Quotes & Sayings

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work. — Anton Chekhov

It's just me against the world. — Tupac Shakur

Life would go back to being unendurable, except-and this was the worst part-she would in fact endure it, it wouldn't kill her, she'd keep on living day after day after day, an endless loop of glorious sunrises and sunsets that Janie never got to see. — Liane Moriarty

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever. — Joel Siegel

Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook. — Maajid Nawaz

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds. — Dick Cavett

Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you. — Malidoma Patrice Some

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry. — John L. Lewis

Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away ... . The one exception to this rule is the bonfire. — Malidoma Patrice Some

We have to snatch the sun when we have it, don't we? — Gayle Forman

that he had to be respectful to his parents, and even if he wasn't a Christian, he couldn't make fun of people who went to church. He was also supposed to go to church, even if his parents didn't go - which lots of parents don't, and should. As you maybe know, if you've read some of the other stories about the Sugar Creek Gang, about half of us were not Christians at first. Little Jim had nearly all the religion there was in the whole gang, but most of us became Christians. Dragonfly was the last one of us to be saved - except for little red-haired Tom Till, whose father wouldn't believe in God and whose mother had never had a chance in life to be happy, which is maybe one reason Little Tom Till's big brother, Bob, had turned out to be such a bad boy. It is not easy for a boy to become a Christian unless his father is one too. Most boys do what their dads — Paul Hutchens

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky. — Beryl Bainbridge

We try to find something to fill our void. But it is only God who can fill the void. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I accept everyone as a friend. In truth, we already know one another, profoundly, as human beings who share the same basic goals: We all seek happiness and do not want suffering. — Dalai Lama XIV

For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. — Markus Zusak