Victor Villasenor Quotes

#1. Women have to be careful to not wear out their husbands on their honeymoons, or they get so weak that they can't go to work!

Victor Villasenor

#2. Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

Victor Villasenor

#3. Talking to God was damned good business.

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#4. Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.

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#5. You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that's left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love you. I do. I do.

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#6. Because Spanish is a feeling-based language that comes first from the heart, just as English is a thinking-based language that comes first from the head.

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#7. For this is God's great plan, that people rise up beyond their personal hatreds, here, right now, in this new land where so many different people with so many different bloods have come to join together and that we recognize we are all the children of God! Every one of us!

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#8. Mi hijito, I've told you a thousand times, if you speak badly of people, God will punish you and make you just like them.

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#9. That's all we need, another drunk author.

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#10. And also
to add to my problems
my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.

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#11. No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you.

Victor Villasenor

#12. And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was set free as a young eagle soaring through the heavens.

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#13. Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?

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#14. Rich is the cream of the fat cow's milk," she said. "Rich is the love of God that we receive each new day! Rich isn't gold! Gold is only for people that are poor of heart!

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#15. The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

Victor Villasenor