Almost A Woman Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

#1. 1.9% had agricultural jobs, more than a 20-fold improvement in productivity per person. So if all people wanted was to be fed, the average person needs to work

Daniel Berleant

#2. I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.

Ray Bradbury

#3. I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

Jane Austen

#4. If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

James D. Watson

#5. Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarter a day. But I was always making things like duck a l'orange and baked Alaska. I was a little bit nutty.

Teri Hatcher

#6. In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

#7. I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette.

Arman

#8. The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

Federica Montseny

#9. The key to longevity: keep breathing.

Sophie Tucker

#10. I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Dolly Parton

#11. My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.

Neon Hitch