Abuelitas Quotes & Sayings

The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks, — Ross Macdonald

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. — Douglas Coupland

Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche. — John Kuypers

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Christianity is Christ plus nothing! — Leonard Ravenhill

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it it is worth paying. When — C.S. Lewis

Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers. — May Sarton

Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe. — Tony Evans

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did. — Glen Campbell

We all know a fool when we see one - but not when we are one. — Arnold H. Glasow

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. — Tina Brown