Dos Amores Quotes & Sayings

I moved along ancient streets, enchanted by names that sounded like songs: Rua da Agonia, Avenida dos Amores, Travessa de Chico Diabo. Our visit to Salvador took place during a period when the local government, or someone acting in its name, was trying to renew the old city, and was closing down the thousands of brothels. But the project was only at midpoint. At the feet of those deserted and leprous churches embarrassed by their own evil-smelling alleys, fifteen-year-old black prostitutes still swarmed, ancient women selling African sweets crouched along the sidewalks with their steaming pots, and hordes of pimps danced amid trickles of sewage to the sound of transistor radios in nearby bars. The ancient palaces of the Portuguese settlers, surmounted by coats of arms now illegible, had become houses of ill-repute. — Umberto Eco

When the love of God becomes your life you become inseparable from God — Sunday Adelaja

I discovered that there had been an extraordinary arrival of birds, — Bradford Torrey

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. — Francois Rabelais

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds. — James Van Allen

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line. — Anthony Kennedy