Quotes About Mango Street

#1. I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.

Sandra Cisneros

#2. Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.

Walter Kirn

#3. Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#4. You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

Zack Snyder

#5. In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.

Michael Ondaatje

#6. I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

Naomi Klein

#7. What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.

David Steindl-Rast

#8. Some people taste as sweet as arsenic but we kiss them anyway. Even after we know about the poison. Even after we know loving them is toxic. We still love them like the cure, whilst they silently pump venom into our veins.

Unknown

#9. In every garden grows one single rose so perfect that once the frost takes it, no other can grow there again. My rose is and will ever be my Edilyn. And I shall never stop mourning her. Illarion's Tattoo

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. Want and belief in lack shrink your opportunities.

Bryant McGill

#11. The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. Farang, I'll bet you Wall Street against a Thai mango he'll be back, if for no other reason than to play the card of virile youth against Hudson's superior rank and thus restore his ego after that humiliating reprimand.

John Burdett

#13. Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#14. When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.

R. Kelly

#15. Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Georges Braque

#16. Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

John Sununu