"I always knew I was going to come home at some point, and I wanted to have a name for myself."

-- Letta Mbulu

#Home Quotes #Names Quotes #Coming Home Quotes

“Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.”

Source : "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.
“Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.”
“In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.”
“And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?”

Source : William Alexander Percy (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.171, Knopf
“It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.”
“I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.”
“Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.”

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