Yavrum Beni Quotes & Sayings

...the heart is an organ of fire. — Michael Ondaatje

You can't really mean to punish the entire male gender for the errors of a few — Alyssa Rose Ivy

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), who sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together. — Beryl Markham

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe

He belonged to a certain breed of gentlemen, only to be met with in London, whose main occupation is the wearing of expensive and fashionable clothes; how they pass their lives in ostentatious idleness, gambling and drinking to excess and spending months at a time in Brighton and other fashionable watering places; how in recent years this breed seemed to have reached a sort of perfection in Christopher Drawlight. Even his dearest friends would have admitted that he possessed not a single good quality.1 — Susanna Clarke

When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in. — Irwin Winkler

For a long time this Bohemian life was taken to be the ideal for the artist, and it has come in the last few decades to be considered an ideal for more than the artist. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start. — Jason Collins