Kaffir Leaf Quotes & Sayings

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions. — Nandan Nilekani

Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. — Gautama Buddha

I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened. — Nick Woodman

Katy. Her name was Katy. Reminded me of Kitty. Kitty cat. Kitten. Look at me, putting all these words together. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing. — Joe Arpaio

When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes, - two of blacks and three of whites; and in one of the houses of the whites a worthless black boy was harbored too openly two years ago; so he was hanged for rape. And here, too, is the high whitewashed fence of the "stockade," as the county prison is called; the white folks say it is ever full of black criminals, - the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs criminals to eke out its income by their forced labor. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Beautiful things don't ask for attention. — James Thurber

In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords. — Lord Chesterfield

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you. — Jamaica Kincaid

To dear Peter, most faithful of friends and dearest of companions, a dog in a thousand — Agatha Christie

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs. — Greg Brown