Shona Ferguson Quotes

#1. We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

George Eliot

#2. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

#3. We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.

Jose Maria Aznar

#4. Minimum wages tends to elicit minimum attention.

Toby Barlow

#5. He knew her, he believed. He would teach her that she was not his possession, he would show her she was free, he would see her flash her wings.

A.S. Byatt

#6. Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider[2]
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Unknown

#7. No such thing as nothing. So it's gotta be a something, don't it?

Patrick Ness

#8. Germany was his favorite place to live, he said, because, even as a child, he could tell how much the Germans loved Americans, and it felt great to be loved for his nationality.

Imbolo Mbue