Rompeolas Vieques Quotes & Sayings

Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset? — John Green

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them. — J.X. Burros

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. — Wally Lamb

His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64 — Alice Walker

There are a thousand ways for a boy of fifteen to go wrong. The most gently reared will lash out, battered by gusts of mindless fury. The brightest can be swamped by black despair. The sweetest may turn sullen and withdrawn. The most rational are quick to anger. — Mary Doria Russell

You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. — Austin Kleon

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family ... I can't even say it because it makes me cry. — Faith Hill

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that. — Charles Buxton

These are valentines for all the boys at school that I like ... And this is a very special one for my sweet babboo."
"Does your sweet babboo know who he is?"
"Oh, yes, he knows who he is ... "
"I do not! — Charles M. Schulz

Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food ... And should we not then enjoy the same liberty ... ? — James Forten

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides. — Ramakrishna

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble. — Michael Palin