Ethnic Restaurants Quotes

#1. Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethnic restaurants or street festivals, but by provoking us, making demands of us. Crazy, unrealistic, beautiful demands.

Eric Weiner

#2. Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Stephen Ambrose

#3. The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

Susan Faludi

#4. Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

Nelson Algren

#5. I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.

Margaret Atwood

#6. It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

Billy Graham

#7. A change in paperwork [birth certificate] can't erase words stamped on the human heart.

Charles Martin

#8. But even those people, cops, lawyers, doctors, learned what they learned from the aftermath. They weren't there when the killer tore at his victim; they didn't smell the scent of evil; they didn't hear the cries to heaven for something, someone, to intervene.

Anne Rice

#9. His father always talked to him - so Seryozha felt - as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys that exist in books, utterly unlike himself. And Seryozha always tried with his father to act being the story-book boy.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. I can smell you," he groaned against her ear as he ran his fangs up her throat. "The most beautiful thing in the world - except for your taste.

J.R. Ward

#11. The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

George Eliot

#12. Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

Poppy Z. Brite