Socotitor Quotes & Sayings

In an Empire where rats ruled, he was the king of the rats. — Agatha Christie

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins. — Joseph Smith Jr.

and it is the body and the care of it, to which we are enslaved, — Anonymous

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos. — Eric G. Wilson

We had traveled far and long to get here but were still the same still-born, unreconstructed people who had once met on this landscape that began somewhere not too far south of the south and ended all the way up in the northernmost extremes of the north, and every soul begotten upon this land was a bastard child of that interminable human equation: colonizer and colony, slave and master, rapist and victim, and any pledge to loyalty and patriotism was an oath to both parts of this equation - we were the seconds obliviously turned up on the old, unregenerate battlefield, here to fight in history's redundant, never-ending duel, always carrying someone else's sword and flag in the name of the myth. — John M. Keller

My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world. — Meryl Streep

I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience. — Tom Riley

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks. — Patricia Neal