Makuma Makubwa Quotes

#1. I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

Peter Biskind

#2. Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.

Sam Ewing

#3. private philanthropy is no substitution for hard-fought battles over labour laws and social security, in part because philanthropy can be retracted on a whim, while elected officials, at least in theory, have citizens to answer to.

Linsey McGoey

#4. In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.

Thomas Aquinas

#5. Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

Evangelista Torricelli

#6. I love hats. I've always loved hats.

Jefferson Mays

#7. Our elected leaders treat us as children or consumers - ideally both, monstrous in our appetites, unable to discriminate between our wants and our needs.

Philip Connors

#8. Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

Horace

#9. The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

Clarence Darrow

#10. You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

Alan Cohen

#11. When the pain in your heart seems too much to bear just ask The Lord and he will be there.

Michelle C. Hillstrom