Enseignes Dumas Quotes & Sayings

These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this city. That's how we lose the city - that's how our knowledge of what the world is is taken away from us - when what we know is blasted into rubble and what is created in its place bears no resemblance to what there was and we are left strangers in a place we knew, in a place we ought to have known. — Bilal Tanweer

History casts its shadow far into the land of song. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ignorance is the supreme oppressor. — Bryant McGill

But sick or well, humans are fragile creatures, you know. There's no anticipating how or when they might die, or for what reason — Soseki Natsume

I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society. — Malorie Blackman

Adventure is the vice of all Woodcutters. — Alethea Kontis

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams. — John Katzenbach

even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
"it used to be likes"
forever remembering,
yet never reliving
his life
will never be what it used to be like. — N'Zuri Za Austin

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful. — Orhan Pamuk

To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. — T.A. Miles

I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best. — Sarah Weiner

Sept 15 1930 at the independence festival of the school of cretins ... At the head of the table by the bowl of pomegranates, Senora Bartolome had put a note: Take only one, our Lord Jesus is watching!.
A second note appeared at the foot of the table beside the sugared almonds: Take all you want, Jesus is looking at the pomegranates. — Barbara Kingsolver