Pura Belpre Quotes

#1. My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

Damien Chazelle

#2. In England, people had been loudly proclaiming the death of the guitar and the birth of the synthesizer, but Sonic Youth and other American guitar bands started to create a buzz.

Kim Gordon

#3. If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

Nikki Giovanni

#4. Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

Carol Saline

#5. Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

Michelle Malkin

#6. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.

Donald Trump

#7. The art of work ... It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Wilferd Peterson

#8. Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

Clayton Christensen

#9. I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life.

L.M. Montgomery

#10. When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Agnetha Faltskog

#11. Holding onto a grudge gives you an extra load to carry in life.

Matshona Dhliwayo