Putumayo Kids Quotes

#1. First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You ... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up ...

Jean Genet

#2. Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one.

Dennis E. Adonis

#3. I lose myself in her: her scent, her touch, and the taste of her. I will never get enough.

Amy A. Bartol

#4. Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#5. My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

Ari Fleischer

#6. I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together

Billy Collins

#7. When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.

Stephen Richards

#8. A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.

Jane Hirshfield

#9. I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.

Philippe De Montebello

#10. The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

Samuel West

#11. The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.

Samuel Smiles

#12. Do not, do not, do not books for ever
hammer at people like perpetual bells?
When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore