Triturando Coca Quotes

#1. [...] here "white" could be the way a person talked; "black," the music a person listened to. In Ghana you could only be what you were, what your skin announced to the world.

Yaa Gyasi

#2. The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

James Surowiecki

#3. Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.

Hal Holbrook

#4. Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.

Washington Irving

#5. She always thought Americans were too territorial. 'All those fences and flags,' she had once said, seeing very little difference between the two.

Dinaw Mengestu

#6. While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.

David Rangel

#7. The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

John Lubbock

#8. In the folklore of the British Isles, a bodach is a vile beast that slithers down chimneys at night and carries off children who misbehave. Rather like Inland Revenue agents.

Dean Koontz

#9. I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

Glenda Millard

#10. The beginning of evil is heedlessness.

Poemen

#11. I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

William Sloane Coffin

#12. Ye have ta ask me dat? Ye do na know dat ye are all dat madders ta me?

Amy A. Bartol