Strawbs Lay Quotes & Sayings

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond. — Nicolas Berggruen

I know all one can know when one knows nothing. — Marguerite Duras

Although she's miles away, still I remember spending that December, staring at the sounds she made with her breath. And when I asked what it was she was up to "five foot nothing" came from her cracked honky-tonk lips and from a calico bonnet monstrous curls unfurled like apple-blossoms scattering about into the back-country. And wreaths of snowflakes swarmed over the hems of her garments and wandered with us into the ether on John F. Kennedy Avenue, and mingled in the traffic. While she held my head together like Jackie Onassis.
Although she's miles away, still I remember her pinning roses to a lapel and the icicles that hung upon the city when I told her "I may not be a handsome man and I probably don't have what it takes to make you forget for long, but know that I'm grateful we had this little drink and a dance before I'm sent ony way." Down John F. Kennedy Avenue, thumbing to Dallas. She held my head together
Like Jackie Onassis. — Valentine Xavier

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you. — John Green

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social. — Jerome Ravetz

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control. — Dick Van Dyke

Survivalist without a cause is a hunter. Prepper without a cause is a gardener. — Bill Gaede

In a virtually perfect world, reality still remains an inconvenient truth. — Phil Pauley