Cordones De Zapatos Quotes & Sayings

Arleen's children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always able to offer them stability; stability cost too much. She was not always able to protect them from dangerous streets; those streets were her streets. Arleen sacrificed for her boys, fed them as best she could, clothed them with what she had. But when they wanted more than she could give, she had ways, some subtle, others not, of telling them they didn't deserve it. — Matthew Desmond

A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable - in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and shade that the owner never would. — Ford Madox Ford

Today the wind and I burst through the double doors together, and it carries me like someone who's going places, because now it's official. I am. — Jessi Kirby

It's depressing to be so depressed. — Marshall Thornton

sometimes you need permission to remember. There are things locked up inside all of us that we don't think are affecting us but have bearing on our lives every day." "You — Chris Fabry

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards. — Jon Michaelsen

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. — Kara Walker

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense. — Warren G. Bennis

Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself. — Walter Bonatti

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice. — Margaret Atwood