"The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats."

-- Carlos Fuentes

#Sarcastic Quotes #Boat Quotes #Peruvians Quotes

“The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.”

Source : Daniel Berrigan (1988). “Daniel Berrigan: poetry, drama, prose”
“When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.”

Source : "'I don't know what I am.' – Tim Robbins". Interview with Jake Tracer, dailybruin.com. June 13, 2004.
“And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.28, Anchor
“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”
“Only two things can stop Tiger â€”Â injury or a bad marriage.”

Source : "His Ownself". www.golfdigest.com. December 12, 2011.
“There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.”

Source : Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.195, Dundurn
“Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.”
“The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.”

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