Cape Verdean Quotes

#1. I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

Charles Barkley

#2. It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

Stuart Rose

#3. God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

Mother Teresa

#4. One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Michael Mandelbaum

#5. My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

Aeriel Miranda

#6. Even if you're sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.

Gary Keller

#7. Where there is too much, something is missing.

Leo Rosten

#8. Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

Paul Quarrington

#10. Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native language and need to be interested in and skilled at terminology research using both paper dictionaries and the Internet.

Corinne McKay

#11. Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

Samuel L. Jackson

#12. I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Ethel Merman