Conquistadores Were Natives Quotes

#1. And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.

Andrea Gibson

#2. It is about simple awareness - awareness of what is so real and
essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep
reminding ourselves, over and over: This is water, this is water.

David Foster Wallace

#3. We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Felicia Hemans

#4. Like so many ancient cities, Perugia has long outgrown her early walls, and much of the new town is remorselessly ugly.

Francis Russell

#5. To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.

David Jeremiah

#6. A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

Billy Bragg

#7. The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.

Laurel Nakadate

#8. Life would be so simple if we could re-write the bad parts but since we can't, let's make the good parts worth writing about

Sharlay

#9. When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

Chris Brown

#10. As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Jose Rodriguez

#11. The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past.

Erik Tomblin

#12. Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

Ben Okri

#13. The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Richard Steele

#14. When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Stephen Mangan