Gavetas Quotes & Sayings

When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing. — Aminatta Forna

I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me. — Wendy Mass

The lonely old soul took to Bomar like a cannibal to a fat Baptist missionary.
Bomar — Kurt Vonnegut

I don't need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it. — Lil' Wayne

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty. — Narendra Modi

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books. — Sherman Alexie

We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us. — J.I. Packer

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble. — Ricardo Salinas Pliego

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.] — Juvenal