Quotes About Quisqueya

#1. The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

Bertolt Brecht

#2. For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. I know you don't like me," Kes said to her. "And, frankly, I don't like you. But please do me the service of shutting the fuck up. I'm doing the best I can.

Heather Demetrios

#4. So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#5. Prayer is a conversation between two people who love each other -you and the Lord-and you don't have to use fancy or religious words to dialogue with him.

Cheri Fuller

#6. Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#7. The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

Philip Wylie

#8. Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people.

Daphne Du Maurier

#10. Give your best today; you will create a better tomorrow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Helping people who are going through what I've been through makes me feel like [my pain] wasn't in vain. It gives the pain I went through a sense of purpose.

Katie Ganshert

#12. You don't get the pint, Woodrow, I've walked the earth in my pride all these years. If that's lost, then let the rest be lost with it. There's certain things my vanity won't abide.

Larry McMurtry

#13. My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

Antony Sher

#14. I tried to interest my daughter in dancing, but she didn't take to it. As a five-year-old, she got lost on the way to her first class. After that she didn't go to dance class again.

Nita Ambani

#15. No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

Edwidge Danticat