Virunga National Park Quotes & Sayings

I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known. — Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis," Douglas commented. Times change, and we change with them. — S.C. Gwynne

If success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. That fact works to your advantage because it keeps lazy people out of the game. — Scott Adams

Loss is never forgotten. But the weight of it dissipates with time. — Bella Forrest

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother. — Anton Webern

In this state, drugged by the rainy dusk, she almost always returned with sensual closeness to seaside childhood; once more she felt her heels in the pudding-softness of the hot tarred esplanade or her bare arm up to the elbow in rain-wet tamarisk. She smelt the shingle and heard it being sucked by the sea. — Elizabeth Bowen

It's easy to see things you're lookin' for. The trick is to see things you're not looking for. — Texas Bix Bender

Knowledge can be powerful. But it can only be beautiful if there is more to it. If it is guided by something greater than the simple desire to enhance the potency of the mind. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else. — Marva Collins

He was soft and slow, gentle and attentive. Possessive. — Penelope Douglas

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad. — Robert A. Heinlein

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen. — Renee Fleming

He was wrong about climbing not getting you anywhere. It can take you places most people only dream about. It can take you all around the world. It can take you up so high, you get a completely new view of the world around you. It can take you to places deep inside your own mind that you never knew existed. It can take you places where maybe you shouldn't go. — Kristin Bartley Lenz

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect. — Martin Luther

But he had heavy hands with thick muscular fingers and black fingernails and there was a look of power to him, a coiled tight set to the way he stood, balanced, ugly, slightly contemptuous, but watchful, trying to gauge Chamberlain's strength. — Shaara