Krio Quotes & Sayings

Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation. — David Levithan

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan. — T.J. Clark

If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped. — Paul Johnson

I don't want the natural athlete
I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones. — Bill Veeck

I am a frail vessel full of errors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is — Charles De Lint

Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with the pink and white puffs of blossoming monkeypods. Cooling trade winds prevail all summer, bringing what the old Hawaiians called makani 'olu' 'olu
"fair wind". — Alan Brennert

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. — Peter Handke

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous. — Booth Tarkington