Elizabeth Warnock Fernea quotes

“Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.”
-- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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“If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.”
-- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Source : Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (1985). “Women and the family in the Middle East: new voices of change”

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“I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.”

“There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.”

“But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation

“The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.92, Baker Books

“I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.”

“I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.”

“Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.”

“When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.”

“The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.249, Simon and Schuster