Xulio Ferreiro Quotes & Sayings

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. — Anna Held

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die. — Temple Grandin

Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests. — Eleanor Henderson

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. — Sarah Vowell

She feels as if her heart may burst. — Sarah Jio

There is no distance greater than the thickness of a human skull."

2000 Miles for Dinner, Marie Claire — Peter Birkenhead

When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant. — Sara Blakely

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone. — Terence McKenna

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again. — Bryant McGill

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. — Beeban Kidron

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job. — Jeremy Corbyn

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. — Ludwig Von Mises

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. — Ogden Nash

I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level. — Bill Paxton

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off. — Peter Gabriel