Rafanana Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. — Marian Wright Edelman

A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. — Arlene Croce

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think — David Malouf

For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end. — Alice Hoffman

Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss. — Ruth Padel

Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration. — Joe Nichols

Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church. — Cynthia Heimel

There are new smells on the wind, the healthy scent of green and growing things, the way a summer day can smell, or a greenhouse, sugarsmooth aroma of budding trees and water flowing free across coarse and sparkling sand. — Caitlin R. Kiernan