By The River Piedra Quotes

#1. A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of control and piety. The child may be deformed with a harelip or be cursed with the ears and head of a wolf. Or the infant may be born a werewolf.

Jody Shields

#2. I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

Muhammad Ali

#3. All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Aaron Carter

#5. I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

Cameron Mackintosh

#6. Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Herbert Spencer

#7. God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Paulo Coelho

#8. In literature mere egotism is delightful.

Oscar Wilde

#9. One doesn't love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object.

Paulo Coelho

#10. I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years
but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago
Aren't they in their own kinds of prisons too?

B.J. Ward