Abuelita's Quotes

#1. I couldn't even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita's sadness.

Sonia Sotomayor

#2. Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Phillips Brooks

#3. When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting ...

Errollyn Wallen

#4. Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Theodor Adorno

#5. To get change, you must first pay for it.

Timothy Joshua

#6. Never fear to improve upon the last endeavor.

Jayce O'Neal

#7. The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James G. Frazer

#8. True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of all existing institutions she raises her glorious head, as the new foundress of the world.

Novalis

#9. I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

Hugh Jackman

#11. People - especially men - don't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then you may quit."
With a broken heart. As if she'd read her mind, Abuelita frowned and scolded, "Hearts mend, but lost chances are gone forever.

Cherise Sinclair

#12. The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

John Lancaster Spalding

#13. The fewer times you charge the phone, the better, because the lithium ion batteries in phones, laptops, and other devices will start to wear out after a few hundred charges.

Anonymous

#14. Then my abuelita booms out words, loud and clear. She always says the words should be round as dimes and as wild as blossoms blooming.

Tony Johnston

#15. Abuelita speaks no english. she doesn't need to, zoe thinks. her smile fills and communicates so much more than the empty, half-said words of zoe's life.

Mary E. Pearson

#16. People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

Richard Branson

#17. We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#18. Most Politicians Are The Whores at The Establishment Party, But We're The Ones Getting Fucked

Dean Cavanagh