Migrations A Novel Quotes & Sayings

One of the West's singular migrations
from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley
is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read ... — Gerald Haslam

I've always felt a little different than everyone - you know, most of the other kids in my class - and I didn't quite see things the way they did or I didn't experience things the same way they did. I often felt a little bit like an outcast. — Erin Davie

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle. — Jessica Mitford

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that. — Mads Mikkelsen

Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth. — John C. Calhoun

laughed out loud. She was being ridiculous. She was obsessing over a boy she hadn't met, so much that she could almost sense what it would feel like for him to push her against the — Kate Forster

The tense of the body is the present indicative; but the soul has a memory and a present and a future. I have conceived some extremely recondite pains for Mr. Trellis. I will pierce him with a pluperfect. — Flann O'Brien

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify. — Mahatma Gandhi

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more. — Maria Semple

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies. — Mitchel Resnick

No. I told you before, I don't even remember coming through the gate. I woke up in thecemetery, my poor wing snapped, my leg broken, beaten like an orphan kid in regency England. I was a pitiful wee creature."
"Um, okay. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.' — Phyllis Logan

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real. — Robert Kiyosaki