Pedro Teixeira Quotes & Sayings

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. — Winston S. Churchill

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11. — Barack Obama

Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then. — Annia Ciezadlo

Look at the magnificence of love,
At this heavenly dusk,
Wind is singing the song of joy,
The sun is kissing the ocean.
Saying goodbye for the night
Promising to wake her up
At the dawn of life,
With the touch of his warmth
and light. — Debasish Mridha

Baby, you're so much of a woman, you turn me off when I hold you. — Rhys Ford

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Sheeana would learn in time that any person who lived through the decision to die evolved a new emotional balance. Fears were transitory. — Frank Herbert

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book. — Ian Fleming

That's why we live in a world that is so messed up, because most of us go along, simply because going along is connected to our paychecks. — Adam Bucko

These would have been all my friends. — Jane Austen

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living — Tom Chatfield