"They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants……" — Robert R. McCammon
"They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end."
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14 Quotes by Robert R. McCammon
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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born…
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After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks.…
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Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.
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Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.
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Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you…
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Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch
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No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's a disguise. It's just the clay of time. Men…
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I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.
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Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and…
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Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until…
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We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in…
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There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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