Africville Halifax Quotes

#1. Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Nina Easton

#2. No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Nobody could ascend before transfigured.

Toba Beta

#4. To live a life without awakening is to leave it as it was begun.

Belsebuub

#5. Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Louise Erdrich

#6. If we all had what we wanted to eat ... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

Jim Thompson

#7. A man is made by his circumstances... If you want to change him, change his circumstances.

Olivia Manning

#8. I ask merely for information.

Oscar Wilde

#9. A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Erica Jong

#10. It's just a guess," said Bramble after a moment, "but I don't think he's in the mood to see us.

Heather Dixon

#11. The terrace and the whole place, the lawn and the garden beyond it, all I could see of the park, were empty with a great emptiness.

Henry James

#12. For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

Karl Barth

#13. An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.

Tahir Shah

#14. Man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey ...

Ayn Rand