Quotes About Miguel Hidalgo

#1. People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

Ann Landers

#2. Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

Annette Crosbie

#3. I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

Jane Gardam

#4. In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: Eden burns.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict
alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

#6. Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.

Rebecca Wells

#7. Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of not thinking.

Ian McEwan

#8. The working of the mind discover oft
Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act.
More hateful still the miscreant who seeks
When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.

Sophocles

#9. Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Strauss

#10. Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla

#11. As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

Nathaniel Kahn

#12. I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly be happy there, but he won't achieve anything great.

Walter Chrysler

#13. I don't know the world, nor yet the people in it; I have been too solitary - I am too young to trust my own opinions.

Joseph Conrad

#14. Gods are for stories and heavens and other realms; they are not to be seen by men. But when we encroach on their world, when we see what we are not meant to see, how can anything but disaster follow?

Hanya Yanagihara

#15. I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

Thabo Mbeki