Ulinzi Africa Quotes & Sayings

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam. — Derrick Jensen

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. — W. H. Auden

...a harried commuter is mistaken for Christ by a child he knocks over. — David Foster Wallace

If you're not former military, join the Marine Corps. — Chet Richards

Having the certitude of a succession of days ... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. — Paul Gauguin

Suddenly, she felt the ground steady under her. These men, the most important judges in the country, were her captive audience for the next ten minutes. RBG knew so much more about the case and the topic than they did. She had to teach them. She knew how to do that. RBG had been teaching law for almost a decade. — Irin Carmon

The first time the word worship appears in the King James Version of the Old Testament, it appears with appalling import. 'Abide ye here,' Abraham tells his servant, while 'I and the lad go yonder and worship.' The terrible offering of his son's life is what the Bible's first instance of 'worship' portends. In the New Testament, the word worship first appears again in conjunction with a costly offering. It is used in reference to the wise men, who 'worshipped' the Christ child by 'open[ing] their treasure' and 'present[ing] unto him gifts.' Worship, then, is about what we are prepared to relinquish--what we give up at personal cost. — Terryl L. Givens

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. — Alan Parker