Jumoke Hill Quotes & Sayings

I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time. — Charles Bukowski

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do. — Raekwon

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone. — Henry David Thoreau

When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive? — Thomas Hood

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. — Pat Buckley

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation. — Mahatma Gandhi

A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.' - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots — D.M. Lee

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in? — Laurie Halse Anderson

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. — Whitney Houston

Whenever I'm particularly frustrated by a problem in my life or in my garden, i meditate on the words of St. Paul in his letter to the Galations, Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. — Vivian Elisabeth Glyck

The translator constantly learns new things about himself. — Ventseslav Konstantinov

And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet."

"Oh real funny. Tease the blind man."

~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115 — Maria V. Snyder

Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one "would" have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things. — Henry James

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness. — Sara Coleridge