Womble Park Quotes & Sayings

Languages are the bearers of the cultural genes. As we learn a language, accents, and ways of speaking, we also learn ways of thinking, feeling, and relating. — Ken Robinson

People can open doors for you, but you ... must walk through. — John C. Maxwell

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better. — Carter G. Woodson

I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol. — Andie MacDowell

The fratricidal Yoruba wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a great boost to the transatlantic traffic in human beings. There were constant skirmishes between the Ijebus, the Egbas, the Ekitis, the Oyos, the Ibadans, and many other Yoruba groups. Some of the smaller groups might even have been wiped out from history, as the larger ones enlarged their territory and consolidated their power. The vanquished were brought from the interior to the coast and sold to the people of Lagos and to communities along the network of lagoons stretching westward to Ouidah. And they in turn arranged the auctions at which the English, the Portuguese, and the Spanish loaded up their barracoons and slave ships. Some of these intertribal wars were waged for the express purpose of supplying slaves to traders. At thirty-five British pounds for each healthy adult male, it was a lucrative business. — Teju Cole

So many things were new. Everything changed. The past would not hold and could not be held. — David Malouf

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together. — Charles Bukowski

I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun.
You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait. — Howard Stern

I married the person who understood
my heart &
nourished my dreams.
The end. — Shayla Black

Let it go. Let it roll right off your shoulder. Don't you know the hardest part is over? — Rob Thomas

All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

She shifted until his cock was under her. She rubbed herself against him, using his hard flesh to pleasure herself.
He arched under her, this big strong man. The tendons of his neck stood out; he flung wide his arms and clutched at the bedclothes. "Eve, what you do to me."
She watched him and slowly reached down to pull her sodden chemise up, up over her belly, over her breasts, over her head, undulating on him all the while. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Life is a field of corn. Literature is the shot glass it distills down into. Lorrie Moore — Mary Karr

Somehow I have slipped. I have to sleep with my computer right by the bed just in case I wake up and start having thoughts. My thoughts need constant interruption, as the stickiness of it will never work, things will never get better, all is lost, the sea wants to have a conversation with you - it all traps me in the same place. I have television, blogs, social media all queued up to keep me from having thoughts. — Jessa Crispin

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk. — Charles R. Cross