Top 49 Anaya Quotes
#1. My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley.
Rudolfo Anaya
#2. Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!
Rudolfo Anaya
#3. I asked Go to answer my questions, but the only sound was always the whistling of the wind filling the empty space.
Rudolfo Anaya
#5. Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.
Elena Anaya
#6. Always have the strength to live. Love life, and if despair enters your heart, look for me in the evenings when the wind is gentle and the owls sing in the hills, I shall be with you-
Rudolfo Anaya
#8. I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.
Elena Anaya
#9. I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you're alone you don't have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you
Rudolfo Anaya
#10. No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.
Elena Anaya
#11. I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.
Elena Anaya
#12. It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.
Rudolfo Anaya
#13. In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.
Rudolfo Anaya
#14. It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.
Rudolfo Anaya
#15. Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek.
'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other - and it's worse when they're in a group.
Rudolfo Anaya
#16. Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.
Rudolfo Anaya
#17. I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.
Antonio
Rudolfo Anaya
#18. I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.
Elena Anaya
#19. 'Bless Me, Ultima' is quite autobiographical in the sense that I was writing a story about my childhood, my hometown where I grew up, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, on Old Highway 66 and the Pecos River. So a great deal of that environment, landscape, people, got thrown in the novel.
Rudolfo Anaya
#20. If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.
Elena Anaya
#21. I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.
Elena Anaya
#22. There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.
Elena Anaya
#23. I wanted answers, and I was afraid of what those answers might be.
C.J. Anaya
#25. Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive.
Rudolfo Anaya
#26. I used to write at night. I was teaching school, and I was married, and had to do all the things that one does when one is working and has a family. But I used to write at night.
Rudolfo Anaya
#27. There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.
Rudolfo Anaya
#28. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.
Rudolfo Anaya
#29. How strong these people were to leave such a lasting impression.
Rudolfo Anaya
#30. Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.
Ivan Fernandez Anaya
#31. I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio.
Rudolfo Anaya
#32. I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.
Rudolfo Anaya
#33. Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.
Elena Anaya
#34. Where did you get Ultima's name?" many ask me. "That was her name when she came to me," I answer. From that first fortuitous meeting I have trained myself to act as a dream catcher. I don't seek characters, they seem to come to me asking me to tell their stories.
Rudolfo Anaya
#35. The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.
Rudolfo Anaya
#36. I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
Elena Anaya
#39. There are many gods ... gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones
... The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.
Rudolfo Anaya
#40. When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here ... in the Southwest ... I still live in New Mexico.
Rudolfo Anaya
#41. I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.
Elena Anaya
#42. To me, the fact that the Mexican came North in search of a better life is a tremendous epic that hasn't been written. It's an odyssey that we know nothing about. And they came with a dream for a better life.
Rudolfo Anaya
#43. I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.
Elena Anaya
#44. Oh, where is the innocence I must never lose?" ~Antonio
Rudolfo Anaya
#45. Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.
Rudolfo Anaya
#46. I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.
Rudolfo Anaya
#47. I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.
Rudolfo Anaya
#48. I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.
Elena Anaya
#49. It's difficult to plan this kind of career. You just need to wait and be picky and try not to commit to just one thing. I'll have to see what's next, see what happens, and see what the future brings.
Elena Anaya
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