African Drum Quotes

#1. I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

Isaac Hayes

#2. What's really good is African drum music.

Fiona Apple

#3. I find it said, if only of Atys or Adonis, "There was a conception that the god sacrificed himself to himself." The man who can read those words without a thrill is dead. The

G.K. Chesterton

#4. We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

Chief Joseph

#5. If you try it," Whip said, "you'll be thrown out on your inalienable ass.

James A. Michener

#6. When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. The thick, caressable curls if his hair.

Henri Cole

#8. Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

#9. You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing?

Mary Shelley

#10. Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

Wes Bentley

#11. Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Honore De Balzac

#12. There"s nothing left between us at all, is there?" she asked.
For a long moment he said nothing, and the pebbles made a clicking noise in his fingers.
Then, as if it gave him no pleasure at all, he replied.
"Whose fault is that?

Caragh M. O'Brien

#13. Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.

Bert Holldobler

#14. Admit it, you want to be fucked and it's not Emen, that dull fuck, you want to feel saddled fast and riding hard between your legs. It's me. My bruises on your skin, my bite marks for you to wear as if it were the finest jewelry.

Penny Alley

#15. Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

Barton Gellman

#16. This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#17. If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.

Pope Benedict XVI

#18. When people don't believe in something, they're lost.

Mitch Albom