Esperanza In The Bean Trees Quotes & Sayings

... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370) — Alex London

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois. — Rod Blagojevich

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc. — Duane G. Carey

Seriously, if it ever was in question, Layne knew for certain in that moment Jasper was definitely his son. — Kristen Ashley

the only true saviours are german — Eckart Tolle

I think we need that to ground us as human beings. I would imagine after an extended amount of time, a vampire might stall a little bit. — Deborah Ann Woll

One travels to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. — Ella Maillart

I close my eyes, and think of water. — James Wright

The religious upbringing that most people go through, and its association with Western religion, is all based on lies. At some point you either wake up and realise [that] they are lies, or you continue in a fog. I realised I had been lied to and wanted to know the truth. — Joel McLver

To speak truth, I had not the least wish to go into company, for in company I was very rarely noticed; — Charlotte Bronte

We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Words start wars and end them, create love and choke it, bring us to laughter and joy and tears. Words cause men and women to willingly risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Our world, as we know it, revolves on the power of words. — Roy Williams

Hippocrates can be justifiably regarded as the father of Western medicine, and he stands in relation to this science as Aristotle does to physics. Which is to say, he was almost entirely wrong, but he was at least systematic. — Philip Ball

Present and yet remote, a living vision of that which has already been left far behind by the flowing streams of Time. — J.R.R. Tolkien