Top 26 Henry Cisneros Quotes

#1. I have my work cut out for me where you're concerned, don't I? (Stryker)
Not really. Hate you today. Will hate you tomorrow. What say we don't waste any time? Give me the sword and let me have your throat now. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

Henry Cisneros

#3. The newest animal Route 5 had used up, it seemed, was my daughter's beloved pet. We buried Smucky in the pet sematary. My daughter made the grave marker, which read Smucky: He was obediant. (Smucky wasn't in the least obedient, of course; he was a cat, for heaven's sake.)

Stephen King

#4. Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

Henry Cisneros

#5. I don't think we have any time to waste.

Henry Cisneros

#6. The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

Henry Cisneros

#7. That is the excitement of life," he said when he was finished. "The not knowing. It is often best not to know.

Mary Balogh

#8. I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

John Locke

#9. I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.

Ken Harrelson

#10. This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital new neighborhoods a reality.

Bruce Karatz

#11. My birth was a blessing. Sent to live and die on Earth; it's a blessing. We each have a star; all you have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone sees it, you won't be blinded.

DMX

#12. I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

Henry Cisneros

#13. In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.

Cesare Prandelli

#14. Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Henry Cisneros

#15. We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

Henry Cisneros

#16. The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.

Roy Yamaguchi

#17. The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

Henry Cisneros

#18. My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

George Eliot

#19. You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.

William Carlos Williams

#20. In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

Wallace Stegner

#21. Still, the night feels restless underneath me

Patti Callahan Henry

#22. Johnny nods and grins, but doesn't talk. He's overwhelmed by Muninn's gewgaws. I've

Richard Kadrey

#23. There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have ... [including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

Henry Cisneros

#24. We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

Henry Cisneros

#25. Hypnosis can return an adult to more primitive levels of consciousness and may be related to reported memories of experiences in infancy.

Marlene Steinberg

#26. Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.

Henry Cisneros

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