Tufas Zoo Quotes & Sayings

Joel Henderson was once asked how he had managed to write all those books. He replied that he had never written a book. All he did was write one page a day. With his limited energy and restricted imagination, a page at a time was all that he could manage. But when a year was up he had a 365-page book. — Eugene H. Peterson

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither. — Albert Einstein

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion ... [has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. — James Madison

Daniel, I was asked of a budding author, how do you know if your story is on track? My answer: I start by knowing my intention, my target. Then, with purpose, I write the scene that unfolds before me, as faithfully as is human. - Daniel LaMonte — Daniel LaMonte

How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.

From View With a Grain of Sand — Wislawa Szymborska

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve. — Henry Ward Beecher

A greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen. — Charles James Fox

Native nations were often matrilineal: that is, clan identity passed through the mother, and a husband joined a wife's household, not vice versa. Matrilineal does not mean matriarchal, which, like patriarchal, assumes that some group has to dominate - a failure of the imagination. — Gloria Steinem

At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth can be shared because we own nothing. There is a word inside us stronger than all others - and more personal. A word of solitude and certainty, so buried in its night that it is barely audible to itself. A word of refusal, but also of absolute commitment, forging its bonds of silence in the emfathomable silence of the bond.
This word cannot be shared. Only sacrificed. — Edmond Jabes

Sometimes when they were talking online, she got this strange vibe. As if she could actually sense him, that she knew what it was like to be with him in person. — Jessica Park

Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon. — Tiny Tim

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old. — Sophia Myles

My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator. — W.N.P. Barbellion

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race. — Taylor Caldwell

The American people ... want change. They want big ideas, big reform. — Rahm Emanuel