Africa Motherland Quotes

#1. Though experience should be our guide ... and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.

Allegra Goodman

#2. We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#3. My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

Maeve Binchy

#4. Never forsake your motherland.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove it at all. In fact, they have very little to do with it. It's what's inside of us, not what's outside of us that counts.

Joan D. Chittister

#6. People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Rachel Cusk

#7. The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

Jacques Ellul

#8. When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.

Sean Bean

#9. But the truth was, we had failed, and rather than let anyone else know, we crafted careful excuses and alibis, and wrapped them around ourselves like a cloak to keep out the cold truth.

Eleanor Brown

#10. As far as me and fame, from my creations I'll be dead and famous long before I know it.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. I'd never seen anything more beautiful - even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

Mitt Romney

#13. Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#14. Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Henry Bolingbroke

#15. I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.

B.G. Bowers

#16. Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Hope Edelman

#17. Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Rene Descartes

#18. Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

Thomas Boswell