Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: August 20, 1955

Topics

JoyPeopleChooseBackLivingTrash

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

Jim Sensenbrenner

IntelligenceLawLaw Enforcement

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

John Bytheway

WorkTimeJobCityFarmQuitting

Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.

John C. Calhoun

GreatGovernmentAccountabilityDebt

Without micronutrients to remove waste, cells become congested, DNA gets broken, and the body doesn't have the ability to repair itself. Eventually, you get sick.

Joel Fuhrman

BrokenSickYouBodyRepairBecome

Research the venue and location before outfit shopping, as it helps set the mood and style focus: a traditional wedding in the countryside offers a different set of sartorial rules to a tropical, beach vibe, for instance.

Jenny Packham

StyleBeachFocusResearchShopping

My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.

Sophia Amoruso

FutureYouthNastyBeenGalEntire

When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.

Steven Bochco

YouLookKindClassicMarkSnapchat

When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own. After all, you'd have to be a pretty terrible father if not one of your seven daughters was willing to take care of you at the end.

Jonathan Franklin

FatherI AmCareEndTake CareYou

We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.

Chris Collins

ChildrenGrowGrandchildrenDefeat

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

Anne Enright

LoveNot KnowingMoreKnowingRoom

Like lots of people, I really love Roxane Gay.

Phoebe Robinson

LovePeopleGayLikeLotsReally

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Publilius Syrus

WorldFriendsWillHimCountRetail

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