Repotting African Quotes & Sayings

You can be in love with someone you hardly know, all romance and rapture and starry eyes ... But you can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you have lived with them and shared experience ... you have got to share living before you can find love. — Stan Barstow

What people take for granted is usually more important than their pronouncements or manifestoes. — Henry F. May

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. — Katharine Whitehorn

You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up. — Karen Salmansohn

A Chief must show no fear, no worry ... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second ... — Cressida Cowell

Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?' — Tommy Cooper

Always remember that you have been called worse things by better people. — Shannon L. Alder

Not an angel more pure than I shall be, for I shall be able to say, in a double sense, "I am clean," through Jesus' blood, and through the Spirit's work. Oh, how should we extol the power of the Holy Ghost in thus making us fit to stand before our Father in heaven! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever
of learning the alphabet. — Nat Turner

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air. — Alice Oswald

Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midwife says it can't be a real smile, not yet, just some passing gas or a random quiver of his lip, but I know she's wrong. — J.P. Delaney