Quotes About Life In Somalia

#1. The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.

Diane Ackerman

#2. 5 Fieldworker life expectancy: 49 years. Antonio Velasco, M.D., Farm Workers in the 1990s. Forty-nine is akin to Somalia (United Nations report) and thirty years less than in the U.S. (CIA World Factbook, 2008). Camels and catfish live longer.

David Marin

#3. When I saw the Cameron Crowe film We Bought A Zoo, it got me to thinking about how our lives are structured the same way as the zoo that was purchased by Benjamin Mee totally changed

Mike Vardy

#4. Renfield, my ass. What I had on my hands was a Van Helsing.

Jordan Castillo Price

#5. I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

Iman Abdulmajid

#6. To get the most bang for your buck, drink your kefir right before bed, so the probiotics can settle in and have a colonization party. Less really is more. Yes, I have overdone it, and spent more time in the company of our porcelain friend than I care to remember.

Tess Masters

#7. Real men don't make salad

Pete Decker

#8. Don't ever let your mistakes hold you back & define your life. It's not what you did yesterday but what you're doing today. Humanity needs diligent workers to help better brighten our world!

Timothy Pina

#9. Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Lewis Thomas

#10. If the cup is empty, it can be filled.

Jane Tompkins

#11. What emerged from the doorway can only be described as how I envision a love-child between Grady from Sanford & Son and a small goat. There before us was The Voodoo Queen.

Scott Burkett

#12. I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go.

Cutter Hodierne

#13. A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

Harry Mulisch

#14. When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know
an authority good for nothing.

Augustus William Hare

#15. I enjoyed being anonymous.

Sacha Baron Cohen

#16. Control the senses, practice equanimity. Live by disciplinary rules. Associate with good friends who are not lazy and live purely. Be courteous and well-mannered, and thus, full of joy. Put an end to suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#17. I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.

Amanda Lindhout

#18. Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

Peter Menzel

#19. The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

Nate Berkus

#20. No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

James K. Polk

#21. If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

Lewis Thomas