Xingu River Quotes & Sayings

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. — Norman Mailer

In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her. — Elisabeth Elliot

Eliot had no idea where he was going, but he'd read enough to know that a state of relative ignorance wasn't necessarily a handicap on a quest. It was something your dauntless questing knight accepted and embraced. You lit out into the wilderness at random, and if your state of mind, or maybe it was your soul, was correct, then adventure would find you through the natural course of events. It was like free association - there were no wrong answers. It worked as long as you weren't trying too hard. — Lev Grossman

Thoughts are not facts, and we are not our thoughts. Knowing this, we can enjoy more flexibility in our minds and lives. — Jonty Heaversedge

There is no other word in the English language more life-changing than Hello — Patrick Stevens

When I speak of a religion of one's own, I'm not talking about a selfish, ego-centered, loosely patched together spiritual concoction. I'm recommending a courageous, deep-seated, fate-driven, informed, and intelligent life that has sublime and transcendent dimension. It can be shared in a community. It can be accomplished inside or outside a traditional religious organization. It is suitable for pious members of a religious group and for agnostics and atheists. To be religious even in a personal way, you have to wake up and find your own portals to wonder and transcendence. — Thomas Moore

There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, "Now leave, so the men can come in" and there was this whole feminizing of women: You have to be very, very retiring and submissive and whatever. — Geena Davis

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true. — Aaron Starmer

The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator. — Roman Vishniac

Thinking of and serving with others can be an antidote to negative and unhealthy introspection. — Billy Graham

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do. — Henry Rollins