Nadifa Mohamed Quotes

#1. What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

Bonnie Blair

#2. Do you think I don't deserve to grieve as much as someone who lost their son after forty years? Twenty-seven years is a short time to have a son. Just because it was short, it doesn't mean it didn't happen. It was just short. That's all.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#3. A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn't half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie

Sue Grafton

#4. If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

Dalai Lama

#5. As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.

Nadifa Mohamed

#6. Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.

Nadifa Mohamed

#7. In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.

Nadifa Mohamed

#8. It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.

Nadifa Mohamed

#9. Mark v 39' - pencilled note to journo who rushed around on the rumour cora pearl had died. (as it was too early for her to give interviews)Finally he found a bible and mark v 39 is:'the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth

Cora Pearl

#10. But it is their voices that really bother her: why do men speak so loudly? They shout rather than talk and laugh like the world needs to know they are laughing.

Nadifa Mohamed

#11. Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#12. The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers

Nadifa Mohamed

#13. The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

Queen Latifah

#14. Everything and everybody that's busted can be fixed. That's what I think.

Kathleen Glasgow

#15. Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

Tony Evans