Top 43 Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
#2. The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#3. The world looked to them like a great roll of butcher paper unfurled on a table.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#4. You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.
Rand Paul
#7. The man was a walking felony, it should be illegal for someone to look and smell as good as he did; especially considering he was such an asshole. "Uh - I'm
Cassia Brightmore
#8. If there is to be peace on earth and good will toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe, and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.
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#11. If it was the Border Patrol's job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#12. On that long westward morning, all Mexicans still dreamed the same dream. They dreamed of being Mexican. There was no greater mystery.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#14. There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.
Stephen L. Carter
#17. If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.
Jim Barksdale
#18. My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest.
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#20. Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
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#21. There are people who will offer you many things and demand nothing in return. Fear them the most, for they are the ones who will take the things that are most precious to you and then their demands will come at a time when it is most inconvenient to you.
Anand Neelakantan
#22. When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#23. Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other
outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.
Gwen Moore
#27. Who was to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to eat His gifts?
Luis Alberto Urrea
#28. Owls visited them at night. Some thought the owls were witches. Some thought they were angels of death. Some thought they were holy and brought blessings. Some thought they were the restless spirits of the dead. The cowboys thought they were owls.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#29. The arch of heaven looks like an
upside-down cup, under which the wise
wander in vain. May your love for your beloved
be as great as the love of the bottle for the glass.
Look, how one gives and one receives, lip against
lip, the precious blood of the grapes.
Omar Khayyam
#30. Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song,
Luis Alberto Urrea
#32. The sky peeled back for a moment, and a weak ray of sunset spilled over the scene like the diseased eye of some forgetful god
the light bearing with it cold in place of heat.
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#33. They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#34. The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness
Donald Bradman
#35. Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#36. Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.
Ruby Dee
#38. Cruz made the sign of the cross over them. He hefted his rifle onto his shoulder and walked away. His warriors followed, blessed by the Lord, reconciled, holy in this day He had made, and ready to shoot.
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#41. The government knew a secret that the American public didn't: the numbers of border crossers were down, across the board. Maybe the fence, maybe the harsh new atmosphere
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#42. There was nothing one could do when love came. It was fast, and it was strong, and if it were not good, then surely God would not have allowed it such power.
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#43. Bees are excellent engineers, better than even you. They are are hard workers...They are as brave as Indian warriors. And they make honey. Far better than humans, my friend.
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