Belitung Island Quotes

#1. I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

Andrea Hirata

#2. A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

Alice Meynell

#3. I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.

Andrea Hirata

#4. I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

Beth Orton

#5. I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

Barry Sonnenfeld

#6. Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.

Gloria Naylor

#7. He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

Frances Power Cobbe

#8. The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

Jessamyn West

#9. The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.

Dejan Stojanovic

#10. The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

John Piper

#11. Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane

Peter Nicholls