Wetbacks Quotes

#1. I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I didn't know we were illegal until I was in the 8th grade. We would call other kids wetbacks, but we were the real wetbacks!

Felipe Esparza

#2. We're the first people of the Western Hemisphere. American history doesn't start with Plymouth Rock; it starts with our ancestors. Others might call us "wetbacks," but we've had 40,000 years to dry out.

Mario T. Garcia

#3. I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#4. It's just simply the fact that the NSA does not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.

Glenn Greenwald

#5. Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

Jeannette Walls

#6. It's the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

Tim Berners-Lee

#7. Be honest, be kind, and share the love.

Suzi Quatro

#8. At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#9. My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

Rashida Jones

#10. Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Camille Paglia

#11. I am a Christian and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate.

Gary Goodyear

#12. We're hiding in a tree with people chasing us. Do you really think this is an appropriate time to make suggestive comments?

Elisa Nader

#13. In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

Alvin Francis Poussaint

#14. A soft moan escapes me, making him smile even more. He's too good at this.

Collette West

#15. You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume.

Ellen Sussman

#16. My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

Romeo Miller