Ebele Okobi Quotes & Sayings

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?
If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness. — Maya Angelou

The Original Quote was:- THOSE WHO FORGET PAST MISTAKES ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT THEM... It was never (as other quotes read)- 'those who forget the past are doomed' - why would we forget the past, that quote makes no sense... — Mel Jones

I've always been into guitars ... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John. — Noel Gallagher

I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that. — Jonathan Hull

After a couple of days of complete hell , rest is at the top of the agenda. As he fades away to an overdue peacefulness, he misses her . — Elizabeth Scott

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight. — Clementa C. Pinckney

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. — Sir Fulke Greville

when all is said and done, we regret only the chances we didn't take, not the ones we did and failed at. — K. Bromberg

11 For the LORD God is j a sun and g shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. k No good thing does he withhold from those who l walk uprightly. — Anonymous

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that. — Roy Blunt

The secret of high finance ... if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money. — Joanne Fluke

Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience. — Rowan Williams

How do you create something unknown? — Sam Messer

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change. — Bob Goff