Pradillos Quotes & Sayings

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants. — Aziz Ansari

On April 18, 1906, when that earthquake hit San Francisco and took David from her, Vivien began to speak the language of grief. She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather, time insists on passing, and as it does, grief changes but does not go away. Sometimes she could actually visualize her grief. It was a wave, a tsunami that came unexpectedly and swept her away. She could see it, a wall of pain that had grabbed hold of her and pulled her under. Some days, she could reach the air and breathe in huge comforting gulps. Some days she barely broke the surface, and still, after all this time, some days it consumed her and she wondered if there was any way free of it. — Ann Hood

She will always be etched in my being, like thread sewn through the fibers of my very soul. — Trish Kaye Lleone

Thanksgiving is oral, positive, active. It is the giving out of something to God. Thanksgiving comes out into the open. Gratitude is secret, silent, negative, passive, not showing its being till expressed in praise and thanksgiving. Gratitude is felt in the heart. Thanksgiving is the expression of that inward feeling. — E. M. Bounds

Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines. — Betty Friedan

I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast. — Louis L'Amour

There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the scriptures only as sources of inspiration and moral truth," and then ask in their smugness: "Do the revelations of God give us a handrail to the kingdom of God, as the Lord's messenger told Lehi, or merely a compass?" — Harold B. Lee

All he could do was focus on the next rung of the ladder: Trina. He had to find Trina. If for no other reason than so he could die with her. — James Dashner

1Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. — Anonymous

In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair. — Leighton Meester

I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college. — Ellen Datlow