Homeboy Industries Quotes

#1. Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

Greg Boyle

#2. Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Greg Boyle

#3. Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.

Greg Boyle

#4. When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Philip Roth

#5. I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

Coco Chanel

#6. It's about "Moments," not Milestones.

Ted Rubin

#7. There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Moshe Dayan

#9. Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy, ... something to be happy and excited about.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#10. Life is way too short to be focused on scales, weight and cellulite. If you can look in the mirror and know that you're a beautiful, loving, friendly person who's good to people, that'll ultimately make you shine on the outside.

Teresa Palmer

#11. Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

El-P

#12. I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

Edie Falco

#13. I happen to know what family you come from, although I know I'm not supposed to know, and I'm certain you can manufacture proof of anything you want."
"That's true. I can. But I didn't."

-Airiana & Maxim

Christine Feehan