Top 24 Judith Ortiz Cofer Quotes
#1. Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her own soul.
E. M. Forster
#2. It is preposterous to think that we are peaceful when every day we spend more money to built killing machine than to educate our children.
Debasish Mridha
#3. 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
#4. You don't learn anything just by reading books.
You learn only by receiving blows.
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#6. 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
#7. And even if I'd wanted to mourn, four or five million were too many to shed tears over. Tears are more personal than that. We don;t read a news story about twenty thousand dead in an earthquake and weep. at best, we sigh and tell the wife. More often, we shrug and go check our Facebook messages.
Adrian Barnes
#11. Mourning suits us Spanish women.
Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe
we are bred for the part.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#12. 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
#13. The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.
Rawi Hage
#14. 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
#16. We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.
Jimmy Wales
#17. I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.
Rainbow Rowell
#18. 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
#19. If you're comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful - and look beautiful to others, too.
Adriana Lima
#20. Without you,
I am an empty place
where spiders crawl and nothing takes root.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#21. I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.
David Shapiro
#22. You are transformed
into one of the gypsy ancestors
we have never discussed.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
#23. A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesn't know.
Georg Simmel
#24. 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
