Ibn Firnas Quotes

#1. Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.

#2. What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

Abbas Ibn Firnas

#3. Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Laurence Sterne

#4. When you train yourself to think positive, you tend to worry less and not let the worst get the best of you.

Jason Scotts

#5. Because I love you, you can keep my heart.

Anonymous

#6. The world is a heartless place but its not always because they dont care. Its sometimes because they don't know what to say or because they simply cannot bear to look into the eyes of someone who is suffering

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#7. Maybe we could put you in one of those plastic hamster balls for your protection.

Molly Harper

#8. Women hold their councils of war in kitchens: the knives are there, and the cups of coffee, and the towels to dry the tears.

Patricia A. McKillip

#9. To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

John Flavel

#10. School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#11. The heart is an organ of fire and you can't stop it from feeling or connecting.

J.H. Wyman

#12. Love really makes the world go round, but sex makes love go round.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz