Quotes of: South-america Keyword

If he keeps on imitating everybody the monkey will one day cut his own throat.

South African

When you shoot a zebra in the black stripe, the white dies too; shoot it in the white and the black dies too.

South African

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Barack Obama

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.

Black In America: Essays and Poems about Racism in America on The 50th Anniversary of The March on Selma.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy o...

Mitt Romney

Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It's just going to bounce. You know, you have ups and downs.

Ivana Trump

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

Disgrace

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

Jasper Johns

I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be

The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage

I used to be a fool...A stubborn fool. I didn't know enough to stand by my friends. Now I'm just stubborn.

The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage

There is no lifeguard on duty. We each swim at our own risk during this short journey." ~ Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue

Amalfi Blue, lost & found in the south of Italy

Conventional wisdom may not be wise. Good fortune and bad luck do not exist. Freedom of choice is predetermined. Don’t believe anything you read!

The South Hills Conspiracy

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.

Lectures on The South: A Collection of Studies

A one-winged bird does not fly south for the winter. It flies south, west, north, and east, over and over. That’s how I feel when I’m in love, only I walk.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - s...

Noam Chomsky

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt Afr...

Nelson Mandela

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, ...

Diplo

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

Leonard Susskind

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our ...

J. M. Coetzee