Kora Quotes & Sayings

My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid. — George Carlin

There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees. — William Carlos Williams

Sean stilled and lifted his head. "That's the third time you've said that." His eyes glinted curiously. "You ever gonna tell me what chroi means?" Max stared at him affectionately, then ran his thumb across Sean's cheek. "It means my heart, Sean....You're my heart....Since the day you first unearthed it. — Kora Knight

Kora may have been a witch, and your father may have had prophetic dreams. But you Paige, is not a witch. You are something much more, but the question is what? — Rebekkah Ford

What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears? — Libba Bray

S if lack of privilege were a competition that he was still determined to win, even in the face of another's clear and inarguable triumph. — Hanya Yanagihara

I was born in 1929, that was the depression, so the golf course was manned by my father and two guys, they worked for my dad and they took me with them everywhere they went. And it was fun. — Arnold Palmer

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. — Merrill McPeak

I've been doing this new ritual where the first thing I do in the morning is put a tablespoon of coconut oil in my mouth and swish it around. Then I put Kora Organics Rosehip Oil all over my body, which is incredible for your skin, and have a freezing-cold shower, all while I'm swishing the coconut oil in my mouth. It's a way to get the circulation going and to make you feel reenergized and refreshed. — Miranda Kerr

You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way. — William Carlos Williams

Rot dead marigolds- an acre at a time! Gold are you? — William Carlos Williams

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. — William Carlos Williams

But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi. — William Carlos Williams

Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact? — Michel Templet

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it. — Joanna Newsom

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies. — William Carlos Williams

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj. — Robyn Davidson

In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance. — Wendy Beckett