Kampong Quotes

#1. It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.

Andrea Hirata

#2. We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#3. It's not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven. I believe that God decides who goes to heaven, not George W. Bush.

George W. Bush

#4. When sighs are hypnotized by sorrow
Happy moments you need to borrow
From a little child or from a bird
Who has the wild freedom of soul: stirred!

Munia Khan

#5. How right you are." She shivered. "Some of my colleagues at G2S, you know, live at Trianon, where they test new life-styles. And they boast about how their actions are monitored night and day, compare the advantages of various ultramodern bugs ... I don't know how they can stand it.

John Brunner

#6. I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.

Cullen Bunn

#7. My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

Isa Kamari

#9. Life has a strange way of working itself out

David Cook

#10. My experience of fundamental Truth is that it's a place of extraordinary intelligence. It's a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.

Adyashanti

#11. Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Edward Hallett Carr

#12. Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed,

J.M. Barrie

#13. I'm apologizing. For whatever I did. For whatever the guy who hurt you did. For the JFK assassination or the botched moon landing. Take your pick." ~Cain, Ghost of You

Kelly Moran

#14. We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

Danielle Steel

#16. When you discover a beautiful tree with beautiful fruits, stop and pick the fruits, but don't remain there, continue your walking till you yourself become a beautiful tree with beautiful fruits!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

James Agee

#18. See him as the child he was.

Sydney J. Harris