Quotes About Bless Me Ultima

#1. In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Rudolfo Anaya

#2. 'Bless Me, Ultima' is quite autobiographical in the sense that I was writing a story about my childhood, my hometown where I grew up, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, on Old Highway 66 and the Pecos River. So a great deal of that environment, landscape, people, got thrown in the novel.

Rudolfo Anaya

#3. In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

Walter Scott

#4. If you can't fly run, if u cant run
then walk, if you can't walk then crawl
but whatever you do keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.

Rudolfo Anaya

#6. (Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit," which was and is awesome.)

Tina Fey

#7. That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

Alexander Pope

#8. Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)

Charles Baxter

#9. I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.

Valentina Tereshkova

#10. I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

Rudolfo Anaya

#11. I was so jealous. I could compete against a dragon in a 'breathing fire contest.

Kalyani Rao

#12. I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Rosemary Mahoney

#13. Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this what he fears? Corruption by pleasure, the subtle transubstantiation of the flesh into a vessel for debauch?

Joanne Harris

#14. Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

Steve Erickson

#15. For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.

Angela Merkel