Portuondo Omara Quotes & Sayings

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life. — Susan Sontag

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves. — Euripides

Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash. — Sathya Sai Baba

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves. — Morihei Ueshiba

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me. — Abraham Lincoln

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job. — Eric Davis

Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon, there would have been no growth. It had to come to the centre where it had both the things in proper proportions to grow. In the same way a human being has to work out that you keep a moderation and a balance and understand not to go to extremes of anything. That balance you learn when you love someone. — Nirmala Srivastava

I remember when I was a kid at school having to learn a poem of sorts about a fellow named Pig-something - a sculptor he would have been, no doubt - who made a statue of a girl, and what should happen one morning but that the bally thing suddenly came to life. A pretty nasty shock for the chap, of course, but the point I'm working round to is that there were a couple of lines that went, if I remember correctly: She starts. She moves. She seems to feel The stir of life along her keel. And what I'm driving at is that you couldn't get a better description of what happened to Gussie as I spoke these heartening words. His brow cleared, his eyes brightened, he lost that fishy look, and he gazed at the slug, which was still on the long, long trail with something approaching bonhomie. A marked improvement. — P.G. Wodehouse

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination. — Billy Sherwood

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire ... — Algernon Charles Swinburne