Burelli Rivas Quotes & Sayings

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know. — Diana Quick

I am a free man. — Michael Reagan

In America, the materio-economic conditions relate to a societal, multi-group existence in a way never before know in world history. American Negro nationalism can never create its own values, find its revolutionary significance, define its political and economic goals, until Negro intellectuals take up the cudgels against the cultural imperialism practiced in all of its manifold ramifications on the Negro within American culture. But this kind of revolution would have to be predicated on the recognition that the cultural and artistic originality of the American nation is founded, historically, on the ingredients of a black aesthetic and artistic base. — Harold Cruse

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death. — Misty Upham

It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it. — Yvonne Pierre

I want to know: How does a space suit on Mars work? Show me how it is pressurized, and how it is cooled. What's the glove design? None of that stuff can be bought off the rack. It does not exist. You can't just go to SpaceMart and buy those things. — Chris Hadfield

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. I — Rabih Alameddine

Horse: Fuckin' knight in shining armor. Might wanna trade your bike in for a pretty pink unicorn to ride, seein' as you're such a special snowflake and all. — Joanna Wylde

God has a mastermind. He arranged everything in His gigantic intellect long before He did it, and once having settled it, He never alters it. "This shall be done," says He, and the iron hand of destiny marks it down, and it is brought to pass. "This is My purpose," and it stands. Nor can earth or hell alter it. "This is My decree, — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer? — James S.A. Corey