Ululation Quotes & Sayings

Palestinian weddings are celebrated over coffee, but when a young man is killed his mother is held up over his grave. 'Trill out your zaghrouda [ululation], his friends say, the shabab who might die tomorrow. A mother says to me: 'Our joy-cries now only ring out in the face of death. Our world is upside down.'
Under the Gun, A Palestinian Journey - MEZZATERRA: FRAGMENTS FROM THE COMMON GROUND — Ahdaf Soueif

Deep down I'm superficial — Anne Penketh

Ululation. We got animals inside of us, man. We've got all this power.
- The Son — Patrick Somerville

Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which is no less corrupt with private interests and its own forms of predation. In modernity sophism is the order of the day, and this obliges its most adept practitioners to learn how to develop the art of appearing to be other than one actually is. — Kenny Smith

Mr Obama you're not a healing Jesus, you cause cancer with your bad policies. — Gordon Klingenschmitt

Victor hadn't exactly looked forward to death before, he was probably contemplating it a bit more fondly as the morning progressed. — Grace Burrowes

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here. — Paul Ince