Buonavia Quotes & Sayings

When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir. — Horace

I put on my thickest red flannel nightie and dove into bed. Mercifully, SanJuanna had taken the chill off the sheets with a warming pan. I intended to lie there for a while and take stock of my life. That's what you do at the end of the century, don't you? I think I actually fell asleep right away and only dreamed I was taking stock. — Jacqueline Kelly

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. — Virginia Woolf

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere! — Rose Pastor Stokes

It was hard to listen to Goldwater and realize that a man could be half Jewish and yet sometimes appear twice as dense as the normal Gentile. — I. F. Stone

There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television. — Gore Vidal

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine. — Tony Hsieh

Perhaps the truth is simply that one would need many lives to enter each realm of experience with the total abandon it demands. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. — Roger Bannister

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant. — Joe Bastianich