Skamba Skamba Quotes & Sayings

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours. — Sharon Horgan

How stand I, then,
That have a father killed, a mother stained,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep, while to my shame I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men
That for a fantasy and trick of fame
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth
My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!
He exits. — William Shakespeare

The baby was warm against my chest. I knew I was broken too. I wasn't like other people. I was scared and weird and anxious and sad lots of the time, and I didn't know why. My parents thought I was abnormal, I was pretty sure. They said I wasn't, but you don't get sent to a therapist if you're normal.
Sometimes we really aren't supposed to be the way we are. It's not good for us. And people don't like it. You've got to change. You've got to try harder and do deep breathing and maybe one day take pills and learn tricks so you can pretend to be more like other people. Normal people. But maybe Vanessa was right, and all those other people were broken too in their own ways. Maybe we all spent too much time pretending we weren't. — Kenneth Oppel

Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind. — Kathy McClary

Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present. — John-Talmage Mathis

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. — Manoj Arora

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle. — Warren W. Wiersbe

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something. — Rebecca Mead

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical. — Cecile McLorin Salvant

On the wall of this yard there was the wording, painted in high letters: Reliable Autos. We get you there.
"Get you where?" asked Fanwell. Chobie smiled. "Where you want to get. That's where everybody's heading, after all. To where they want to get. — Alexander McCall Smith

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance. — Pema Chodron

I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling. — Del Shannon

Then I was a young man a thousand years old, and now I am an old man waiting to be born. — Charles Bukowski

Absence makes the dick grow fonder, isn't that what they say? — Tara Sivec

Roman might have survived the Great Vampire War of 1710, but he was about to face an even worse terror.
A mortal female in full rage. — Kerrelyn Sparks