Tzeni Kazakou Quotes & Sayings

When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage. — Gary Hopkins

I thought about evolutionary historians who argued that walking was a central part of what it meant to be human. Our two-legged motion was what first differentiated us from the apes. It freed our hands for tools and carried us onthe long marches out of Africa. As a species, we colonized the world on foot. Most of human history was created through contacts conducted at walking pace, even when some rode horses. I thought of the pilgrimages to Compostela in Spain; to Mecca; to the source of the Ganges; and of wandering dervishes, sadhus; and friars who approached God on foot. The Buddha meditated by walking and Wordsworth composed sonnets while striding beside the lakes.
Bruce Chatwin concluded from all this that we would think and live better and be closer to our purpose as humans if we moved continually on foot across the surface of the earth. I was not sure I was living or thinking any better. — Rory Stewart

tonight the gars on trees are swords in the hands of knights
the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind
is — Frank Stanford

I worry that people will think that I have done what I've done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I'm just as scared and lonely as anyone else! — Abigail Disney

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. — Christopher Logue

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Only is a powerful word. It is extreme. It picks a fight. It draws a line in the sand. — Rob Rienow

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by every member. — Robert E.Lee