Munoz Quotes & Sayings

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel. — Antonio Munoz Molina

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies — Fred Munoz

How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life! — Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza, that you, — Pam Munoz Ryan

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Remember this: you can have justice, or you can have two dollars. But you can t have both. — Luis Munoz Marin

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there? — Pam Munoz Ryan

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish. — Antonio Munoz Molina

half truths equal whole lies — Fred Munoz

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Mrs. Potter said you were a kind and loving soul, underneath all the rest. I guess that means your heart's so sad that it's hard to get out from under the weight. When I was sad about my mother dying, Granny used to say grief is the heaviest thing to carry alone. So I know all about that -Mike — Pam Munoz Ryan

words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like the statues of Michelangelo were in the block of marble where they were revealed. — Antonio Munoz Molina

its better to be warm than cold — Mickey Munoz

If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel? — Antonio Munoz Molina

What grows [from] the dark soil of disappointment? — Pam Munoz Ryan

Does a metamorphosis begin from the outside in? Or from the inside out? — Pam Munoz Ryan

... and her name was Freedom. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price. — Antonio Munoz Molina

How to be happy in life? The short and simple answer is to SMILE more often! — Al Munoz

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck. — Antonio Munoz Molina

If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me. — Mark Munoz

With your votes you are working for your future. It is not a holiday; it is the most serious day of work since you were born. Better to come in clothing dirty from work than with your soul filthy from having sold your right to justice. — Luis Munoz Marin

My husband meant for us to live here. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Everybody has a heart. Sometimes you gotta work hard to find it -Mouse — Pam Munoz Ryan

As their shoulders touched, the riverboat was no longer earthbound. With only the two of them aboard, it lifted into the sky, navigating a sea of white billows. The boy was the figurehead beneath the bowsprit, eyes searching for the way. Neftali was the paddle wheel, moving them forward as one ancient spirit. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Music does not have a race or a disposition! Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language. A universal religion of sorts. Certainly it's my religion. Music surpasses all distinctions between people -Father — Pam Munoz Ryan

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity. — Antonio Munoz Molina

I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice. — Fred Munoz

To lead other people is to be able to impact them in a positive way: mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically. — Mark Munoz

The words he had written wiggled off the page and escaped from the drawer. The letters stacked themselves, one on top of the other. Their towers reached higher and higher until they stood majestic and tall, surrounding Neftali in a city of promise. HUMANITY. SOLIDARITY. GENEROSITY. PEACE. JUSTICE. LOVE. Then a tiny, conceited word came along. Like a hungry termite, it began to gnaw on the tall words, chewing at their foundation, gulping their pulp until they swayed, toppled, and collapsed. All that remained was one fat, satisfied syllable. FEAR. — Pam Munoz Ryan

I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration. — Pam Munoz Ryan

A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Our Land is alive, Esperanza, -Esperanza Rising — Pam Munoz Ryan

The talk began about bank loans and investments. — Pam Munoz Ryan

You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.
— Antonio Munoz Molina

There are two types of stories: public and private. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Although he had changed his name, his history came with him, even to his writing. The rhythm of his rain-soaked childhood became a sequence of words. His memories of the understory of the great forest burst into lyrical phrases, as resinous as the sap of a pinecone, as crisp as the shell of a beetle. Sentences grew long, then pulled up short, taking on the tempo of the waves upon the shore, or swayed gently, like the plaintive song of a lone harmonica. His fury became essays that pointed, stabbed, and burned. His convictions played out with the monotonous determination of a printing press. And his affections became poems, as warm and supple as the wool of a well-loved sheep. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Rose is not complete without the thorns. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza means hope in Spanish. — Pam Munoz Ryan

We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us. — Pam Munoz Ryan

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust ... flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy ... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy? — Al Munoz

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Esperanza leaned around the side of the truck. As they rounded a curve, it appeared as if the mountains pulled away from each other, like a curtain opening on stage, revealing the San Joaquin Valley beyond. Flat and spacious, it spread out like a blanket of patchwork fields. Esperanza could see no end to the plots of yellow, brown, and shades of green. The road finally leveled out on the valley floor, and she gazed back at the mountains from where they'd come. They looked like monstrous lions' paws resting at the edge of ridge. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Your fate is not yet sealed. Even in the darkest night, a star will shine, a bell will chime, a path will be revealed. — Pam Munoz Ryan

The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies. — Fred Munoz

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters. — Antonio Munoz Molina

A weight pressed on his heart. How could he want something and fear it so much at the same time? — Pam Munoz Ryan

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery. — Antonio Munoz Molina

When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change? — Luis Munoz Marin

There is no rose without thorns. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Pablo Neruda's poems tramped through the mud [with the fieldworker] ... knocked at the doors of mansions ... sat at the table of the baker ... The shopkeeper leaned over his counter and read them to his customers and said "Do you know him? He is my brother."
The poems became books that people passed from hand to hand. The books traveled over fences ... and bridges ... and across borders ... soaring from continent to continent ... until he had passed thousands of gifts through a hole in the fence to a multitude of people in every corner of the world. — Pam Munoz Ryan

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country. — Antonio Munoz Molina

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. — Antonio Munoz Molina

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring. — Pam Munoz Ryan

You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Our Land is alive, Esperanza ... This whole valley breathes and lives ... He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating. — Pam Munoz Ryan

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Esperanza! Wake up!" screamed Mama. — Pam Munoz Ryan

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching. — Antonio Munoz Molina

I am poetry,
surrounding the dreamer,
Ever present,
I capture the spirit,
enslave
the reluctant pen,
and become
the breath
on the writer's only road. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Hortensia set the tray down and brought a shawl and wrapped it protectively around Mama's shoulders. Esperanza couldn't remember a time when Hortensia had not taken care of them. She was a Zapotec Indian from Oaxaca, with a short, solid figure and blue-black hair in a braid down her back. Esperanza watched the two women look out into the dark and couldn't help but think that Hortensia was almost the opposite of Mama. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing. — Pam Munoz Ryan

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish. — Antonio Munoz Molina

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes. — Antonio Munoz Molina

We must live like angels and produce like the devil! — Luis Munoz Marin

There it was again, the good and bad all rolled into a meatball. — Pam Munoz Ryan

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you. — Antonio Munoz Molina

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate. — Antonio Munoz Molina

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new. — Antonio Munoz Molina

She said people on hard times deserved to have beauty in their lives as much as anyone else, whether or not they could pay their rent or were walking to a breadline. Granny said that just because someone was poor didn't mean they were poor of heart. — Pam Munoz Ryan

A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie. — Fred Munoz

A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie. — Fred Munoz

Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night. — Rosabetty Munoz

Which is sharper? The hatchet that cuts down dreams? Or the scythe that clears a path for another? — Pam Munoz Ryan

Finally, the lawyer came to settle the estate. Mama, — Pam Munoz Ryan

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond. — Mark Munoz

The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!"
Esperanza smiled and reached over and gently pulled the yarn, unraveling the uneven stitches. Then she looked into Isabel's trusting eyes and said, "Do not ever be afraid to start over. — Pam Munoz Ryan