96374 Quotes

#1. If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

Denise Chavez

#2. If my life was to be a story, I wanted to take control of the pen. I wanted to change the paper, crumple up what had been written so far and start over. I

Kandi Steiner

#3. They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

#4. I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

Michael Jordan

#5. It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.

Sara Gilbert

#6. And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Thomas Jefferson

#8. No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned by a dog.

Gene Hill

#9. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth.
We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death.
But within this realm of choicelessnness, we do choose how we live.

Joseph Epstein

#10. Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.

Virginia Postrel

#11. If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.

Gabby Douglas

#12. They wanted it because they've got some sort of darkness in them. And maybe because they like pain. Because pain turns them on. Well, maybe it turns me on, too," she said quietly. "In fact, I know it does, because loving you hurts. And yet, I still come back for more.

Larissa Ione