Dahomey Africa Quotes & Sayings

A boy needs some territory to call his own. Does he get to choose what he wears - often? Does he have certain special toys that he does not have to let others play with? Is his room, especially, a little kingdom over which he has some say? Of course, a parent expects him to clean his room. I'm talking about choices of what color to paint it, what pictures he gets to hang on the walls. Do his parents and siblings have to knock before they enter? You might want to ask yourself, "The things that were precious to me when I was young - did I have any sort of control over them?" How else will he learn to rule? — John Eldredge

If we verily bear the cross we shall be neither controlled nor influenced by soulical affection but shall be fit to love in the power of the Holy Spirit. Even so did the Lord Jesus love His family while on earth. — Watchman Nee

It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. — George Herbert

You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes. — R.A. Dickey

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. — Dian Fossey

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater. — A.R. Ammons

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir. — Fawn Hall

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind. — Tariq Ramadan

Those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The first thing I encountered on entering the museum was the earliest steam engine built in England. As I walked on, marveling at each successive mechanical wonder, I realized that I was witnessing the history of machinery, as if on parade, from its primitive beginnings to the present day, in all its complex and astounding elaborations.
Henry Ford's so-called "pile of scrap iron" was organized not only with scientific clarity but with impeccable, unpretentious good taste. Relics of the times associated with each machine were displayed beside it. To me, Greenfield Village, inside and out, was a visual feast. — Diego Rivera

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. — H.L. Mencken

Thanks a lot, Allie."
I grimaced not for the first time at the realization that he couldn't remember my name, then I decided I was definitely over the guy. "You're welcome, Bart."
"Brad."
"Kate."
"Huh?"
I wanted to laugh. "I'm Kate. — Rachel Hawthorne

You're supposed to be a Labrador retriever!" I shouted. "Not a Labrador evader! — Anonymous

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown. — Paulo Coelho