Laura Esquivel Quotes

I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

Laura Esquivel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: September 30, 1950

Topics

ChangeCuriousVegetarianHippie

My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second was that it was delusional and dangerous to believe I possessed the same freedom white people had to pursue my dreams.

Jenny Zhang

WorkMotherDreamsFreedomPeople

Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.

John Francis

SilenceTalkingMeanTwoUpTown

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

John Updike

GodFireSkyImaginationWarRed

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

Stephenie Meyer

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Investing in ports with partners is a very common model for us.

Soren Skou

InvestingUsCommonModelPartners

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

Rod McKuen

LifeLiveBestDayManMe

Linebacking is easy. Hike the ball, and I know where to go.

Rolando McClain

EasyGoKnowBallWhereHike

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

Mike Nichols

GodMeDieNever ForgetKnowForget

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Artur Davis

LosingRealityYouValuesTalkMore

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.

Philippe Perrin

FlyingYouEarthRealizeAboveOnly

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

Pud Galvin

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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

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