Skagosi Quotes & Sayings

Even more complex and dangerous than the river itself were the fishes, mammals, and reptiles that inhabited it. Like the rain forest that surrounds and depends upon it, the Amazon river system is a prodigy of speciation and diversity, serving as home to more than three thousand species of freshwater fishes - more than any other river system on earth. Its waters are crowded with creatures of nearly every size, shape, and evolutionary adaptation, from tiny neon tetras to thousand-pound manatees to pink freshwater boto dolphins to stingrays to armor-plated catfishes to bullsharks. By comparison, the entire Missouri and Mississippi river system that drains much of North America has only about 375 fish — Candice Millard

Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don't want to go back, because they're comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy. — Ted Dekker

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics. — Gary Zukav

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest. — Karen Marie Moning

I feel like blue jeans are kind of too 'country' for me. — Jack Barakat

Tigerclaw flicked his tail. How who were? — Erin Hunter

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way. — Chantal Sutherland