Quotes About Guadalupe

#1. All, whether believers or not, find something to love, and to love intensely, in the Virgin of Guadalupe. Against her in this land, no man blasphemes. She is the ideal, the light that shines above our strife and our incredulity.

Francis Johnston

#2. One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared.

Sandra Cisneros

#3. There was a twofold awkwardness attached to Juan Diego's attempts to have sex with the life-size Guadalupe doll - better said, the awkwardness of Juan Diego's imagining he was having sex with the plastic virgin.

John Irving

#4. But Lupe both genuinely worshiped Our Lady of Guadalupe and fiercely doubted her; Lupe's doubt was borne by the child's judgmental sense that Guadalupe had submitted to the Virgin Mary - that Guadalupe was complicitous in allowing Mother Mary to be in control.

John Irving

#5. If you want to worry about something, you ought to worry about how Guadalupe was looking at you. Like she's still making up her mind about you. Guadalupe hasn't decided about you," the clairvoyant child had told him.

John Irving

#6. As a self-described Guadalupe girl, Lupe was sensitive to Guadalupe being overshadowed by the "Mary Monster." Lupe not only meant that Mary was the most dominant of the Catholic Church's "stable" of virgins; Lupe believed that the Virgin Mary was also "a domineering virgin.

John Irving

#7. We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom.
... Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

Peggy Noonan

#8. Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Bertrand Russell

#9. If your objective is to tell time, you will not buy a mechanical watch. You have the time on your phone.

Ricardo Guadalupe

#10. By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

Eric Flint

#11. I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

Dan Hill

#12. The sun will set and the sun will rise, and it will shine upon us tomorrow in our grief and our gratitude, and we will continue to live with purpose, memory, passion, and love.

Brent Schlender

#13. Sometimes it's best to take things down and start all over again. It's the way of the world.

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

#14. The world could be standing still, and we'd all be just as dizzy.

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

#15. I'd say a watch is like a jewel of the man. It's really to distinguish yourself, because in your watch people can see who you are, more or less, what you want to represent to other people.

Ricardo Guadalupe

#16. Do real and permanent good in this world.

Andrew Carnegie

#17. There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Sheri S. Tepper

#18. It's a sin and an evil to think you had understood. But unless we acted as if we understood something, we wouldn't be able to live.

Wataru Watari

#19. And the pomegranates,/
like memories, are bittersweet/
as we huddle together,/
remembering just how good/
life used to be

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

#20. If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Samuel Goldwyn

#21. Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil ...

Ana Castillo

#22. Being Mexican ... means being there for each other. It's togetherness, like a familia. We should be helping one another, cheering our friends on.

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

#23. The key element of success is a product that matches all of what you've done in your message and your marketing, and all the emotion that has to be transmitted to the consumer through the product.

Ricardo Guadalupe

#24. You must remain pure of heart on this journey ... Be courageous but remember to also be noble and everything will be all right.

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

#25. Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right

Arthur W. Pink

#26. The beauty of a loving smile has a timeless freshness.

Debasish Mridha

#27. I wonder if he thinks he married a girl with two personalities: vixen and wallflower.

Christina Lauren

#28. When you walk by faith, you will claim all that God has for you, but unbelief is always content to settle for something less than God's best.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#29. Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

Guadalupe Neri

#30. We don't sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to you, you know. It's like you have a nice shirt or a nice jacket. It's like a luxury accessories that can be considered like shoes or like handbags for ladies.

Ricardo Guadalupe