Esperanza Rising Alfonso Quotes & Sayings

Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.' — Marcia Muller

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches. — Amy Klobuchar

Monsanto actually emerged as a war chemicals industry. It is known for Agent Orange, and for toxics. It wasn't ever in seed and agriculture. This is a recent entry, because they realized controlling the seed means controlling the entire food chain and the profits they can make from that are so much more than they can make at any other level. So in a way they brought war to our farmlands. They brought war against our farmers. The economics of it are first and foremost the economics of a monopoly, created by a highly undemocratic, international trade treaty, which brought clauses on control over the seed. — John Robbins

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer. — Josh Silver

He who has foresight has more than two eyes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Rumours are like sexually transmitted diseases, both are spread by whores. — Habeeb Akande

Abandonment - and that's precisely what it is-is never a solution. It never takes away pain, but only adds to it. — Eric Mason

Do you earn income as a model? Maybe I do. — Blake Lewis

when Rave finally pulled his mouth away she felt drained yet energized, lost but found, sated but wanting. And desperately, irrevocably, and joyously in love. — Scott Prussing

Behold me! I am worthy
Of thy loving, for I love thee! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning