Quotes About Abuelita

#1. The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. Don't be trying to give back pain for pain ... You can't get even measures in business like this.

Larry McMurtry

#3. Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it.

John Knight

#4. We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#5. Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#6. Abuelita speaks no english. she doesn't need to, zoe thinks. her smile fills and communicates so much more than the empty, half-said words of zoe's life.

Mary E. Pearson

#7. Then my abuelita booms out words, loud and clear. She always says the words should be round as dimes and as wild as blossoms blooming.

Tony Johnston

#8. You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.

Pelle Almqvist

#9. People - especially men - don't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then you may quit."
With a broken heart. As if she'd read her mind, Abuelita frowned and scolded, "Hearts mend, but lost chances are gone forever.

Cherise Sinclair

#10. I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.

Walker Percy

#11. I have a right to be blind sometimes.

Horatio Nelson

#12. Reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.

John Wooden

#13. You can touch the moon if you really want to do it.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I couldn't even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita's sadness.

Sonia Sotomayor

#15. Hatred - The anger of the weak.

Alphonse Daudet