Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.

Cyril Ramaphosa

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Past
  • Gods

• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Age
  • Story
  • Meaningful

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Bad
  • Storyteller
  • Embellish

• Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Book
  • Point
  • Where

• As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Born

• I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Home
  • House
  • Present

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Dirtiest

• We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Stop
  • Woman
  • First

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• One of my favorite fall items is a turtleneck. Cozy pieces like that for the fall - cashmere, fluffy cream turtlenecks - I think that's so sexy.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Fall
  • Sexy

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • Believe

• If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Believe
  • Free

• We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Believe