Mauritanian Quotes & Sayings

With faith, we can walk though the faire un-harmed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you. — Debasish Mridha

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence. — Louis O. Kelso

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one. — Jimmy Fallon

I am very proud of our Supreme Court - it is one of the best worldwide. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, we have seen a certain imbalance in the relationship between the judiciary, the parliament and the government. The Supreme Court behaved in an activist way. We have to debate the degree to which such Supreme Court activism is appropriate. — Ayelet Shaked

FLESH IS LIKE GRASS, AND ALL ITS GLORY LIKE THE FLOWER OF GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERS, AND THE FLOWER FALLS OFF, 25BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER. And this is the word which was preached to you. — Charles F. Stanley

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film. — Abderrahmane Sissako

The chow mein fairy has entered the building. — Angela Marsons

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us. — Mark Zuckerberg

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city. — Tahir Shah

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me. — Mary Frann

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. — Mary Landrieu

The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone. — Steve Pavlina

Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages. — Walter Scott