In The Time Of The Butterflies Patria Quotes & Sayings

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us. — Ray Bradbury

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds. — Thomas A Kempis

If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. — John Taylor Gatto

It is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be. — Karl Marx

I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it. — Zach Braff

One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth. — Kevin Barry

Her despair may have gone, but it had left its heaviness draped over her, thick and bleak. — Laini Taylor

Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then. — Edmund Morgan

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time. — Max Muller

Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way. — Neneh Cherry

Brooklyn is a very weird borough. — Keeth Smart

The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell to me like fermenting apples. — Laurie R. King

It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in — Tom Kavanagh

Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective. — Adrianne Ambrose