Ser Abuelo Quotes & Sayings

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons. — Adrienne Rich

In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. In fact, it's high time that more people acknowledged the electric pull that women can feel for their profession, the exciting heat of ambition and frisson of success. — Rebecca Traister

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is not lost in loss itself. — John Milton

The heart never becomes wrinkled — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal De Sevigne

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.' — Mark McKinnon

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep. — Sue Monk Kidd

You got to be ready for everything in life — Dilma Rousseff

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is but another instance of injustice, Fray Felipe said. For twenty years we, of the missions, have been subjected to it, and it grows. The sainted Junipero Serra invaded this land when other men feared, and at San Diego de Alcala he built the first mission of what became a chain, thus giving an empire to the world. Our mistake was that we prospered. We did the work, and others reap the advantages. They began taking out mission-lands from us, lands we had cultivated, which had formed a wilderness and which my brothers had turned into gardens and orchards. They robbed us of worldly goods. And not content with that they now are persecuting us. The mission-empire is doomed, caballero. The time is not far distant when mission roofs will fall in and walls crumble away. Some day people will look at the ruins and wonder how such a thing could come to pass. — Johnston McCulley