Zerzura Rooftop Quotes

#1. There is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#2. Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

Saint Ambrose

#3. She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out of clouds; when it rained - and it always did - they were left with nothing but the soggy shirts on their backs.

Ayana Mathis

#4. I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.

Robert Harris

#5. Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent. They build bridges to nowhere and tunnels to nothingness ... Those who excel in them seldom do in anything else, therefore, there are no excuses.

Frank Ocean

#6. The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.

Albert Einstein

#7. It's not them, it's you. It's not there, it's here. It's not then, it's now.

Leonard Jacobson

#8. Wings - -vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.

Laini Taylor

#9. Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#10. It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

Francis Chan

#11. I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

Dizzee Rascal