Top 35 Urrea Quotes
#2. On that long westward morning, all Mexicans still dreamed the same dream. They dreamed of being Mexican. There was no greater mystery.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#3. The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#4. The world looked to them like a great roll of butcher paper unfurled on a table.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#6. Tell him I went to the lavatory," Evie said with a roll of her eyes. "Men are pos-i-tute-ly paralyzed by the mention of females in lavatories.
Libba Bray
#8. Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#9. If it was the Border Patrol's job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#10. Bees are excellent engineers, better than even you. They are are hard workers...They are as brave as Indian warriors. And they make honey. Far better than humans, my friend.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#12. I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
Louise Mensch
#14. No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
Susan Sontag
#16. The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.
Kevin Nealon
#17. My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#18. Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#19. Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#21. Who was to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to eat His gifts?
Luis Alberto Urrea
#22. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
Winston Churchill
#23. Owls visited them at night. Some thought the owls were witches. Some thought they were angels of death. Some thought they were holy and brought blessings. Some thought they were the restless spirits of the dead. The cowboys thought they were owls.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#24. Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song,
Luis Alberto Urrea
#26. The sky peeled back for a moment, and a weak ray of sunset spilled over the scene like the diseased eye of some forgetful god
the light bearing with it cold in place of heat.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#27. They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#30. Cruz made the sign of the cross over them. He hefted his rifle onto his shoulder and walked away. His warriors followed, blessed by the Lord, reconciled, holy in this day He had made, and ready to shoot.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#32. I missed out on the Spice Girls. I missed out on all those big pop phenomenon and missed out even on the Madonna records. It's okay, cuz I'm playing catch-up on everything now.
Katy Perry
#33. The government knew a secret that the American public didn't: the numbers of border crossers were down, across the board. Maybe the fence, maybe the harsh new atmosphere
Luis Alberto Urrea
#34. Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#35. There was nothing one could do when love came. It was fast, and it was strong, and if it were not good, then surely God would not have allowed it such power.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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