"It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture."

-- Wangari Maathai

#Would Be Quotes #Culture Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.”
“Only grown-up men are scared of women.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kurt". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. 1965.
“The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.”
“Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.”
“Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we forgive them, we must leave them free to respond to our good news however they are inclined. If the response is not what we hoped for, we can go home and enjoy our own healing in private.”
“I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan”
“Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.”
“Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.”

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