Taharka Quotes & Sayings

The difficulty that accompanies you is less like the dark than a trusted lantern to see your way by. — Eudora Welty

Sometimes our passion is so strong that it makes a fool of us. — Matthew Salesses

Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you? — David Mitchell

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last. — Don Rickles

The early and relatively sophisticated Egyptians understood that their civilization would be threatened if they bred with the Negroes to their south, so pharaohs went so far as "to prevent the mongrelization of the Egyptian race" by making it a death penalty-eligible offense to bring blacks into Egypt. The ancient Egyptians even constructed a fort on the Nile in central Egypt to prevent blacks from immigrating to their lands. In spite of the efforts by the Egyptian government to defend their civilization, blacks still came to Egypt as soldiers, slaves, and captives from other nations. By 1,500 B.C., half of the population of southern Egypt was of mixed blood, and by 688 B.C., societal progress had ended in Egypt when Taharka became the first mulatto pharaoh. By 332 B.C., Egypt had fallen when Alexander the Great conquered the region. — Kyle Bristow

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime. ~Aristotle — Nichole Force

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort — Dalai Lama

We aren't so different. Outcasts and wanderers all - souls clinging to the margins of the world. — Ransom Riggs

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. — Peter Drucker

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance. — Edgar Lee Masters

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. — Mahatma Gandhi