Girmay Quotes

#1. I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world.

Kathy Calvin

#2. You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins."
"Insha'Allah.

Leslie Cockburn

#3. But good girls dont do that, dont make a fuss, dont upset parents. and i was a good girl so i curled up on the floor and sobbed silently instead

Laura Jarratt

#4. On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Martin Sheen

#5. You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.

Linda Howard

#6. The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered.

Aracelis Girmay

#8. I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.

John S. Hall

#9. Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars,
when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you
& touch you with
its mouth.

Aracelis Girmay

#10. Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.

Columella

#11. One of my favorites to order in fancy restaurants is escargot.

Kirsten Prout

#12. & we cannot separate the roof from the heart
from the trees that were there, standing.
& so it is, when I say "night,"
it is your name I am calling,
when I say "field,"
your thousand, thousand names,
your million names.

Aracelis Girmay

#13. Truth: When criticized you go berserk, but in your defense remember that it is those who calmly listen who never change.

Colum McCann