Top 13 Ruth Behar Quotes
#1. The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
Ruth Behar
#2. Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
Ban Ki-moon
#3. I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.
Ruth Behar
#4. Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
John Dalton
#5. Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.
Ruth Behar
#6. It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have missed my mother's warm tortillas and many more things than I can name.
Ruth Behar
#7. Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
Bill Hybels
#10. Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.
Gary Hamel
#11. Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
Joyce Meyer
#12. I've faced a hell of a lot worse than you today, you lizard-tongued monster!
Denise Grover Swank
