Top 24 Judith Cofer Quotes
#1. Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt
#2. If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.
Bob Goff
#4. It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#5. Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.
Kenneth Fisher
#7. You are transformed
into one of the gypsy ancestors
we have never discussed.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#8. Without you,
I am an empty place
where spiders crawl and nothing takes root.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#9. A leader in the leader is your positional status in the body while the leader in a leader is Christ in you the hope of glory
Ikechukwu Joseph
#10. She was mourning all her life - not for her husband, who had released her with his death, but for her own dead heart.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#11. When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.
William Hendriksen
#12. It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
Alfred North Whitehead
#13. America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.
Winona LaDuke
#14. I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
Alison McGhee
#15. I still am a little late, though. I'm trying. There's a lot of shit to do to pull this old ass together.
Cyndi Lauper
#16. When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.
Rick Ross
#17. The decade is over, time to begin forgiving
old sins. Thirteen years since your death
on a Florida interstate - and again
a dream of an old wrong.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#18. Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl.
Dylan Moran
#19. In the wind that may travel
as far as you have gone, I send this message: Out here,
in a place you will not forget, a simple man
has been moved to curse the rising sun and to question
God's unfinished work.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#20. Mourning suits us Spanish women.
Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe
we are bred for the part.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#22. The sun and the endless hours of swinging a machete in the fields had taken him from child to old man with no stage in between.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#24. The oldest woman in the village, Paciencia,
predicts the weather from the flight of birds:
Today it will rain toads, she says,
squinting her face into a mystery of wrinkles
as she reads the sky - tomorrow,
it will be snakes.
Judith Ortiz Cofer