Nozipo Maraire Quotes

#1. The heart knows no logic beyond need and desire; the head has no senses except the common and the pragmatic. Neither, frankly, is particularly useful in love, anyway.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#2. Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.

Sarah Dessen

#3. I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that path, that we shall one day grow slow and stooped.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#4. An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

Jef Mallett

#5. A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.

Beth Revis

#6. Welcome, my dear, to the Western world, land of democracy, freedom, and bigotry.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#7. You shall be distinguished overseas by your colourful plumage, graceful flight and beautiful songs. There are so many lovely features that will make you conspicuous among the flock.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#8. One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

Michio Kaku

#9. Foreign Cash is not the answers to our problems, my friend. Africa needs the hearts and minds of its sons and daughters to nurture it. You were our pride, Mukoma Bryon. When you did not return, a whole village lost its investment. Africa is all that we have. If we do not build it, no one else will.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#10. If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering.

Joshua Braff

#11. I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.

Jenny Nimmo

#12. Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#13. A writer is always working.

William Zinsser

#14. Until we begin to put pen to paper, we historically do not exist.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#15. As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.

Rick Astley

#16. Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

Dr. Seuss

#17. Rain falls so lightly that it seems indistinguishable from fog.

Anthony Doerr

#18. I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of.

Lauren Oliver

#19. To love is a beautiful, mysterious event; do not miss it. Be neither too cautious nor too absorbed. Too many of us reason with our heart and experience with our heads.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#20. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of.

Francis Chan

#21. The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#22. Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

J. Nozipo Maraire

#23. When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Umberto Eco

#24. There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.

J. Nozipo Maraire