Cerrojo En Quotes & Sayings

I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition. — Leyla Zana

That's what I was thinking about before you came. I was thinking about your mattering business. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."
"You don't even know why you need to be world-famous; you just think you do. — John Green

Yankee caps pop up all over the world, not as a statement of loyalty to that team, but as a symbol of - what? Winning 27 so-called World Series? Much of the world doesn't even play that sport. — George Vecsey

that dwelling was named Menegroth, the Thousand Caves. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Stella wondered how silence could be so loud. — Sharon M. Draper

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white. — Michael Jackson

Wouldn't it be nice to say to people we meet, "I know something good about you," and then treat them that way? (author unknown) — Antonio F. Vianna

I'm so frightened that I shall be able to accept the notion that I have lost myself only if I imagine that someone is holding my hand. — Clarice Lispector