A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah Quotes

#1. I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Dolly Parton

#2. Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

Kathy Sierra

#3. What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

Nick Laird

#4. Sonofabitch answer me!" My voice bounced off the walls, made the whole room whirls around me. My blood pounded in my ears. Adreline poured through my blood, copper winding me tighter and tighter.
"YES!" he screamed back "yes. i am a fucking virgin, don't shoot me goddammit fucking please!

Lili St. Crow

#5. An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into
conventional wisdom.

Steven D. Levitt

#6. The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

Saadi

#7. Sex pretty much cures everything.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. A man willing to sacrifice his life for you is more than worth admiring. He's worth loving.

Jessica R. Patch

#9. Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw.

Carole Bouquet

#11. Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

Will Schwalbe

#12. In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

Ishmael Beah

#13. This is your new nurse, Mary Poppins.

P.L. Travers

#14. I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the guy who got thrown into a vat of acid as the curtain went up. I was very pissed off at these older kids; they'd outsmarted me.

Paul Reubens

#15. Small log cabin once stood near the creek, but as the Jones family's fortunes

Rita Mae Brown

#16. But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

Bill Nye

#17. The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

Rocco Buttiglione