Roumain Quotes

#1. It's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.

Steve Kluger

#2. One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.

Joan Armatrading

#3. Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

Jacques Roumain

#4. Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

Tom Robbins

#5. Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.

Jacques Roumain

#6. As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

Jacques Roumain

#7. I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

Barbara Bush

#8. You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

Sandra Dallas

#9. And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

Jacques Roumain

#10. When an enlightened person appears, the Way echoes like the majestic sound of the rising tide. When the tide rises, all false views are swept away.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window ...

Eleanor Clark

#12. There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

E.F. Schumacher

#13. You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

Jacques Roumain

#14. Experience is the cane of the blind.

Jacques Roumain

#15. We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Jerrold Nadler