Lourenco Da Quotes & Sayings

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Most people who spew hatred aren't very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate. — Damien Echols

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers. — John Quincy Adams

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking. — Gao Xingjian

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. — Natalie Clifford Barney

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. — Thomas Browne

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board. — Bear Bryant

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. — Zeno Of Citium

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. — Nikki Giovanni

I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems. — Thomas A. Edison

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue. — Peter Garrett

The fanged shadows boiled out behind them, howling for blood, their voices creaking with the sound of snapping bones. The fallen of Hethor's own party seemed to be swept up in the pursuit, dead correct people on their trail, keening, crying, blaming. Rivers of red flowed rapidly across the stone dock in the twilight, slippery sticky blood overtaking their flight to make them trip and slide headfirst into stone bollards or pitch screaming into the sea. — Jay Lake

If only those old walls could talk ... how boring they would be. — Robert Benchley

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it. — Saint Augustine

I will be the one to leave you. — David Levithan