Anzaldi Clifton Quotes & Sayings

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives. — P. J. O'Rourke

If you don't have the confidence to fall head over heels in love, you don't have the right to love. — Kim Young-kwang

By losing present time, we lose all time. — William Gurney Benham

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends. — Isocrates

The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving. — Bryce Courtenay

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? — Pietro Metastasio

My goddesses! Where now? Forsaken?
Oh hearken to my call, I rue:
Are you the same? Have others taken
Your place without replacing you? — Alexander Pushkin

The word Familia did not originally signify the ideal of our modern philistine, which is a compound of sentimentality and domestic discord. Among the Romans, in the beginning, it did not even refer to the married couple and their children, but to the slaves alone. Famulus means a household slave and familia signifies the totality of slaves belonging to one individual. The expression was invented by the romans to describe a new social organism, the head of which had under him wife and children and a number of slaves, under Roman paternal power, with power of life and death over them all. — Friedrich Engels

My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life. — Cynthia Ozick

People in the village often said she ought to have been extremely attractive, because her parents had been. Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together; this was the terrible trick nature had played on her. — Arthur Golden

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. — Kahlil Gibran

What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living. — Alice Hoffman

Every time the woman turned her head, it was like she was posing for a picture with an Instagram setting that filtered out humility. — Tara Altebrando