Braian Rivera Quotes & Sayings

My education and that of my Black associates were quite different from the education of our white schoolmates. In the classroom we all learned past participles, but in the streets and in our homes the Blacks learned to drop s's from plurals and suffixes from past-tense verbs. We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial. We learned to slide out of one language and into another without being conscious of the effort. At school, in a given situation, we might respond with "That's not unusual." But in the street, meeting the same situation, we easily said, "It be's like that sometimes. — Maya Angelou

Okay," Annabeth said. "What exactly do you smell?"
"Something bad," Tyson answered.
"Great," Annabeth grumbled. "That clears it up. — Rick Riordan

I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm. — Bernie Mac

Luck is blind, they say. It can't see where it's going and keeps running into people ... and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say! — Nikos Kazantzakis

It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne. — Walter Moers

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song. — Curtis Mayfield

The whole scene made Dan think of American history tests, which were almost as scary as exploding museums. — Rick Riordan

Nobody returned alive from the war. — Andrija Jonic