Paulette Bonafont Quotes & Sayings

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. — Henry Fielding

Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards, and this chain of cause and pretext stretches back to the Palaeolithic age, when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first Abel of another. All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victimisers a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediately to the means of their former oppressors. The triple contagions of nationalism, utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other. — Louis De Bernieres

I cannot see the short, white curls
Upon the forehead of an Ox,
But what I see them dripping with
That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax;
When I see calves and lambs, I see
Them led to death; I see no bird
Or rabbit cross the open field
But what a sudden shot is heard;
A shout that tells me men aim true,
For death or wound, doth chill me through. — W.H. Davies

Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men]. — Ishmael Reed

Well, obviously religion must come from inside. — Jimi Hendrix

Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus. — Connie Willis

A married man turns his staffe into a stake. — George Herbert

I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children. — Wolfgang Ketterle

Magnus gazed upon Camille. Some of my fondest memories include lashings of cream and beautiful women. — Cassandra Clare

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now. — Miranda Lambert

The tempest unleashes an alphabetletters fall through the apertures of crazy anglesto spell out the futureuprooting the course of inventionand enslaving the masters — Nancy Peters

If he was going to die, he would die fighting. — Quinn Loftis