Trinidad E Tobago Quotes & Sayings

All of a sudden, there is no hurry. There will be time for everything. For the breezes that blow and for the rainwater drying in the gutters, for Maury to find a place of safety in the world, for Malcolm to come back from the dead and ask her about birds and jets. For the big things too, things like beauty and vengeance and honor and righteousness and the grace of God and the slow spilling of the earth from day to night and back to day again.
It is spread out before her, compressed into one single moment. She will be able to see it all. — Alden Bell

I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things. — Phil Robertson

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much. — Mindy Kaling

Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing. — Michael Anthony

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant. — Jim Rohn

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. — Chris Hedges

Yuh cyah vex when soca playin — Wayne Gerard Trotman

What remains uncertain, rather, is whether this gain in evidence and (we might as well say it) splendor is due to the slow retreat of the sky, which as it moves away, sinks deeper and deeper into darkness, or whether on the contrary, it is the moon that is coming forward, collecting the previously scattered light and depriving the sky of it, concentrating it all in the round mouth of its funnel. — Italo Calvino

Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.' — Carrie Vaughn

the sun had tanned her so that the rich velvety blackness of her skin glistened and she felt so much herself on those days of Carnival, soaked so deeply with a sense of her own beauty, that after the festival, she continued to keep her hair in the same fashion and wear her skin with the same pride, the result being that men took her for a foreign woman — Earl Lovelace

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy. — Ruben Hinojosa

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday!
Roxanne Catherine Mapp — Roxanne Catherine Mapp

One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card ... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen. — Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight. — Gene Tunney

I should take a photo.'
'No. Just remember it, and us in it. — Ali Shaw

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money. — Michael Caine

I've been a good teacher for eleven years, and then they come up with this mandated testing crap? With the state pushing for performance, the Board of Ed would have been all over me once those test results came in! Me? Like it's my fault these kids can't pass a test? — Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa