Zakes Mda Quotes

#1. Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Zakes Mda

#2. Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer

Louis Theroux

#3. It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chita Rivera

#4. Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

Zakes Mda

#5. Beauty is not about make up it's about what it makes you to be from within.

Amit Abraham

#6. Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

D. Todd Christofferson

#7. Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Aristotle.

#8. Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth ...

Vincent De Paul

#9. The power of healing is within you. All you need to do is give your body what it needs and remove what is poisoning it. You can restore your own health by what you do -- not by the pills you take, but by how you choose to live.

Terry Wahls

#10. For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we'll figure out, or our descendants will figure out, that people owning land they don't live on or work is a bad idea too.

Dennis Vickers

#11. The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Zakes Mda

#13. I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

Lord Chesterfield

#14. The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.

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#15. If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political - because you are dealing with people who lead political lives in an environment which is highly politically charged.

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#16. Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

John Burroughs

#17. I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Lucian Freud

#18. And she will restore to him his soul.

Neal Shusterman

#19. Lovemaking is a big grammatical error, i think it should be, LustMaking.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#20. There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

Zakes Mda