Mediterraneans Quotes & Sayings

When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure, no matter your wide shoulders, no matter your toughened heart? — Leif Enger

I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome — Dan Slott

Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD. — Candace Kita

An Opera for Kamal Boullata

If I were one of those musicians
who penned grand Italian operas
where the notes, like clogs
strike all the chords
of Mediterraneans like us
I would compose one
and dedicate it to you

Yet sadly these shrill words
are all I have for you — Najwan Darwish

We thought you would not die - we were sure you would not go; And leave us in our utmost need to Cromwell's cruel blow - Sheep without a shepherd when the snow shuts out the sky - Oh, why did you leave us, Eoghan? Why did you die? — Bill O'Reilly

Saying 'Love you' never creates a story, its the beginning of trouble. — Sumanta Goswami

If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner. — Barack Obama

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for. — Stephen L. Carter

God has a way of taking messed-up situations and flipping them on their heads.'
'Oh yeah? Give me one example.'
'Turning an executioner's cross into a symbol of hope. — Katie Ganshert

God willing, we will throw them into the sea. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable. — Yunus Emre

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. — George Herbert