Duru Quotes

#1. Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

Sylvia Poggioli

#2. We're almost like Bonnie & Clyde. Of course, he's Bonnie and I'm Clyde.

Alex Riley

#3. Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

Nick Hornby

#4. Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb.

Eusebius Clay

#5. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

#6. All gentlemen of any rank with whom he holds conversations can speak Latin, French, Spanish or Italian. They are aware that the English language is only used in this island and would consider themselves uncivilized if they knew no other tongue than their own.

Ian Mortimer

#7. Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.

Ellen G. White

#8. Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs

Cameron Herold

#9. Each step was performed reluctantly, knowing how grueling it would be to win that elevation back.

Hugh Howey

#10. Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.

Mark McKinnon

#11. The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

William H. Seward

#12. There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Nicolas Chamfort

#13. One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.

Peter Bogdanovich

#14. If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

Henri Matisse

#15. Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.

Henri J.M. Nouwen