Quotes About Ultima

#1. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.

Rudolfo Anaya

#2. Where did you get Ultima's name?" many ask me. "That was her name when she came to me," I answer. From that first fortuitous meeting I have trained myself to act as a dream catcher. I don't seek characters, they seem to come to me asking me to tell their stories.

Rudolfo Anaya

#3. It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

Robertson Davies

#4. Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#5. And our sailors of space have a legend of the furthest star of all, where the gods lay their plans against us, or plot the catastrophes of the end of time: the pachacuti. We call this undiscovered star Karu, which means 'far'.'
'As we speak of Ultima,' Quintus mused.

Stephen Baxter

#6. 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

#7. Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
[Lat., Ultima semper
Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Ovid

#8. In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Rudolfo Anaya

#9. I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.
Antonio

Rudolfo Anaya

#10. '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

#11. Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

Marguerite Young

#12. I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.

Oscar Wilde

#13. What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.

Christina Engela

#14. There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

Aeschylus

#15. The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

Johnny Depp

#16. I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

Kenneth Lay

#17. To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home

Theodor W. Adorno

#18. A flat map is fun in its purest state.

Michael W. Clune

#19. 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

#20. All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

Charles Dickens

#21. Can you hold happiness? Can you drink it? Can you taste it? Can you touch it? Of course not, it is immaterial. So, stop looking for it in the material world! Happiness is experienced within; when we bridge the gap between what we want to experience and how we choose to behave.

Steve Maraboli

#22. The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible.

Gerard Majella