Ferre Quotes & Sayings

Our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments. — Rosario Ferre

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life. — Art Blakey

Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less. — Rosario Ferre

I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen. — Luis A. Ferre

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. — Gianfranco Ferre

To carry timber into the wood.
[Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.] — Horace

If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere — Billy Sunday

My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul. — Luis A. Ferre

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them. — Rosario Ferre

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral ... — Rosario Ferre

Today I hope to live life. To wake each morning and persevere through the struggles. To understand that there is reason and purpose. I choose to find my path and strive upon it, rising everytime I fall. I choose to keep smiling through the pain, and not be discouraged by others who choose disappointment and despair. I choose to be kind even in the face of animosity. To not become fearful in the presence of hatred. I choose to let go of hurt and forgive. Mend what is broken, I choose to wear my scars, and choose not to be a victim.

I choose to stand with truth, my truth, my worth, and stand against all injustice. I choose the life gifted to me, till life is no more. — Aisha Mirza

Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe. — Hideo Kojima

In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening. — Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration. — Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven. — Thomas Watson

A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity. — Frederick Ferre

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses. — Scott Walker

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth. — Luis A. Ferre

The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It sculpts the body by transforming itself into a second skin. Imputed with glamour and poetry, freedom and impetuousness, the prim white shirt turns out to have a thousand identities ... — Gianfranco Ferre

People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not. — Nathaniel Buzolic

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. — Gianfranco Ferre

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it. — Luis A. Ferre

A fragrance always combines femininity and sensuality. — Gianfranco Ferre

God owns and controls all things. And there is nothing that he could give you for Christmas this year that would suit your needs and your longings better than the consolation of Israel and the redemption of Jerusalem, restoration for past losses and liberation from future enemies, forgiveness and freedom, pardon and power, healing the past and sealing the future. — John Piper

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods. — Luis A. Ferre

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven. — Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any. — Rosario Ferre

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist ... — Rosario Ferre

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot. — Rosario Ferre

Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City. — Luis A. Ferre

I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality. ("The Writer's Kitchen") — Rosario Ferre

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.
[Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem;
Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.] — Horace