Top 70 Munoz Quotes
#1. Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#2. Your fate is not yet sealed. Even in the darkest night, a star will shine, a bell will chime, a path will be revealed.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#3. This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#4. A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie.
Fred Munoz
#5. I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?
Pam Munoz Ryan
#6. We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#8. If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.
Mark Munoz
#9. With your votes you are working for your future. It is not a holiday; it is the most serious day of work since you were born. Better to come in clothing dirty from work than with your soul filthy from having sold your right to justice.
Luis Munoz Marin
#10. I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.
Mark Munoz
#12. How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!
Pam Munoz Ryan
#13. If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?
Antonio Munoz Molina
#14. A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#18. The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#19. Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#20. words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like the statues of Michelangelo were in the block of marble where they were revealed.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#21. An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#22. One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#23. The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#24. Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night.
Rosabetty Munoz
#25. Remember this: you can have justice, or you can have two dollars. But you can t have both.
Luis Munoz Marin
#27. How to be happy in life? The short and simple answer is to SMILE more often!
Al Munoz
#28. Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#29. A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#32. The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#33. Mrs. Potter said you were a kind and loving soul, underneath all the rest. I guess that means your heart's so sad that it's hard to get out from under the weight. When I was sad about my mother dying, Granny used to say grief is the heaviest thing to carry alone. So I know all about that -Mike
Pam Munoz Ryan
#36. Everybody has a heart. Sometimes you gotta work hard to find it -Mouse
Pam Munoz Ryan
#38. To lead other people is to be able to impact them in a positive way: mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically.
Mark Munoz
#39. A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.
Fred Munoz
#40. There it was again, the good and bad all rolled into a meatball.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#42. Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#43. Which is sharper? The hatchet that cuts down dreams? Or the scythe that clears a path for another?
Pam Munoz Ryan
#44. Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#46. Our Land is alive, Esperanza ... This whole valley breathes and lives ... He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#47. Finally, the lawyer came to settle the estate. Mama,
Pam Munoz Ryan
#49. There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#50. The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.
Fred Munoz
#51. Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice.
Fred Munoz
#52. A weight pressed on his heart. How could he want something and fear it so much at the same time?
Pam Munoz Ryan
#53. If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#54. I am poetry,
surrounding the dreamer,
Ever present,
I capture the spirit,
enslave
the reluctant pen,
and become
the breath
on the writer's only road.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#55. I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#56. You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#57. A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#58. You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies
Fred Munoz
#61. Music does not have a race or a disposition! Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language. A universal religion of sorts. Certainly it's my religion. Music surpasses all distinctions between people -Father
Pam Munoz Ryan
#62. I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#63. Does a metamorphosis begin from the outside in? Or from the inside out?
Pam Munoz Ryan
#64. I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#65. What grows [from] the dark soil of disappointment?
Pam Munoz Ryan
#66. People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#67. Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#70. She said people on hard times deserved to have beauty in their lives as much as anyone else, whether or not they could pay their rent or were walking to a breadline. Granny said that just because someone was poor didn't mean they were poor of heart.
Pam Munoz Ryan
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