Primeiro De Agosto Quotes & Sayings

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn. — John Berger

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,
imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country. — Henning Mankell

After a lie truth bursts out, and it is no longer the radiant and serene goddess knew or hoped for - it is a disease, it is a moral syphilis and will ravage until the body in which it can dwell has been purged. — James Stephens

The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully. — Lauren Mackler

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks. — Andrew Thomas

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. — Eric McCormack