"My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive."

-- Waris Dirie

#Mother Quotes #Flower Quotes #Mean Quotes

“There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”

Source : "Hollow City". Book by Ransom Riggs, January 14, 2014.
“It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.”
“Boxing is show-business with blood.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“This is what it's like to get old: You still feel 19, except your knees hurt”

Source : "Regrets at Fordham". Interview with Keith Gessen, nplusonemag.com. December 17, 2011.
“When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.”
“Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.”
“I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.”
“It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.”

You may also like:

Alek Wek
Model
Anthony Mackie
Actor
Fatima Siad
Fashion Model
Iman Abdulmajid
Fashion Model
Juliet Stevenson
Actress
Liya Kebede
Model
Naomi Campbell
Model
Sally Hawkins
Film actress
Timothy Spall
Character actor