Mayaguez Quotes & Sayings

But sir, I'm seventeen," I reply bluntly. "I'm genetically programmed to want to make statements. — Sarah Ayoub

I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue. — Janice Hahn

I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky down my face and arms, the sun in my eyes, breaking through clouds and glinting off the rain-soaked pavement and dripping leaves. I was running with joy, an overwhelming joy that arose simply from gratitude for the fact of being alive. Along with the image, memory carried these words from a child's mind through time: I am blessed. In this life I am truly blessed. — Sonia Sotomayor

I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party. — Andre Leon Talley

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good. — Howard Stern

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. — Sun Myung Moon

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war. — Jimmy Carter

Every good and perfect gift comes from God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around. — Robert Teeter

I woke with my name singing in my ears. It was a beautiful sound, music unlike any in the world. It made me wish that everything could have such a name. Not just people, but animals and villages, and roads and kingdoms, even mountains. — Liesl Shurtliff

Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman, or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred! — Tom Stoppard

I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives. — Ray Bradbury

Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. — Marcus Aurelius