"I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land."

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Source : Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”

Thabo Mbeki

#Flower Quotes #Sea Quotes #Land Quotes

“Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.”
“The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.”
“Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious 'right' a revolution was fought.”

Source : "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.
“Sometime years before, I had dragged an old bean bag chair to that place. I watched Zach sink onto it, and then he pulled me down to lean against him. I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.”
“I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.”
“It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ..My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 151, 1988.

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