Quotes About The River In Bless Me Ultima

#1. It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Steve Maraboli

#2. 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

#3. The real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.

Jean Kerr

#4. I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.

Erroll Garner

#5. What do you read for pleasure?
Kama Sutra.

Jonathan Dunne

#6. Peace comes the moment we let go of our story about how the world should be and find the truth of what is.

Bruce Van Horn

#7. 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

#8. We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#10. There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

#11. Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

Carl Sagan

#12. '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

#13. Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Dennis Prager