Top 24 Vuong D I L C Quotes
#1. Dear God, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
to get here.
Here. That's all I wanted to be.
I promise.
Ocean Vuong
#2. I didn't know the cost
of entering a song - was to lose
your way back.
Ocean Vuong
#3. When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst - into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.
Ocean Vuong
#4. In order for things to change, YOU MUST change. If you don't change, then nothing will change. IF you will change, EVERYTHING will change for you.
Duc Vuong
#5. Every woman was once a little girl with big dreams. Believe in yourself and never quit dreaming!
Bryant McGill
#6. Don't we touch each other just to prove we are still here? I was still here once. The
Ocean Vuong
#7. Language excites me. Irrational thought excites me. I spend most of my time listening instead of writing. A shard of language might come: a phrase, a word, an anagram, and I'd just keep it in my pocket, like a little seed, warming in my fist.
Ocean Vuong
#8. The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
H.R. McMaster
#9. I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to take off the way it did. I couldn't be happier. I love the chance to play so many different characters every day.
Kari Wahlgren
#12. Your father is only your father
until one of you forgets. Like how the spine
won't remember its wings
no matter how many times our knees
kiss the pavement. Ocean,
are you listening? The most beautiful part
of your body is wherever
your mother's shadow falls.
Ocean Vuong
#13. what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?
Ocean Vuong
#14. Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest.
Pham Nhat Vuong
#15. We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.
Pham Nhat Vuong
#16. To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe
Bruce Chatwin
#18. Sometimes I ask for too much just to feel my mouth overflow.
Ocean Vuong
#19. How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.
Ocean Vuong
#20. Confetti
green, how I want you green.
Green despite the red despite
the rest.
Ocean Vuong
#21. When our lips touched the day closed
into a coffin. In the museum of the heart...
Ocean Vuong
#22. The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
Asne Seierstad
#23. I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx!
Octavia Spencer
#24. The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
Ocean Vuong
