Nzinga Blake Quotes & Sayings

You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror ... But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace. — John Irving

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them. — Erma Bombeck

Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
Another for the pot! — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing. — Louis Leakey

I wondered if she really was that rude, or if she had some sort of medical condition where the filter between her brain and her mouth had been broken since birth. — Robin Palmer

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. — Jerome K. Jerome

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek:
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
'The one thing I regret,' he said,
'Is that it cannot speak! — Lewis Carroll

A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain trails of myth; you were spared the fate of your ancestors. So borrow the wisdom of the anemones and say: Nothingness does not concern me, even if death besieges me. — Mahmoud Darwish

Amazing how people saw what they wanted to see without taking the time to look. — Barbara Claypole White

I would love to have my own lingerie line. — Kate Upton

I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines. — Chico Hamilton

There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and ... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance ... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with ... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate. — Eugene McCarthy