Kahu Quotes & Sayings

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids. — Bryan Stevenson

... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal. — Witi Ihimaera

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that. — Angelina Jolie

You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives once. I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. Do you know how many children I have buried - children I begot in my youth and strength? Twenty-two. I did not hang myself, and I am still alive. — Chinua Achebe

A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music. — Conway Twitty

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject ... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them ... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. — Seneca.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the grass surface on most miniature golf courses was actually goat hair that had been dyed green. — Will Pearson

The weather has changed completely in the last week. Last Saturday was mild and sunny, autumn looking reluctantly back over its shoulder towards summer. Today it was wet and blustery, autumn barrelling forward impatiently into winter. — Jo Walton

Does one always need a reason to like something?" she asks amusedly.
"Because if there isn't any reason, I guess you can just say that's pure love. — Kimberly Joy Villanueva

Get your appointment book out and schedule do-nothing-but-relax periods during the week, and then keep those appointments. — Sonia Choquette

The centuries dull and shift the memories, and the lens of time alters images. A — R.A. Salvatore

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough. — Ralph Nader

We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings. — Emile Coue