F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

F. Sionil Jose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: December 3, 1924

Topics

SeaMountainVillagePoorLandLeft

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

Amy Klobuchar

SimpleMeMissionGoalGuiltyTrue

What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

John Quelch

MoneySomeoneYouYearsOutAsking

With Marathi cinema, content is king. It has always been driven by content. I am lucky that I don't have to leave home to seek a job elsewhere. The industry is here at home.

Amruta Khanvilkar

HomeJobI AmKingCinemaLucky

You can't tell someone how to write their own book.

Stefflon Don

BookSomeoneYouWriteTellOwn

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

Trudi Canavan

PerspectiveTravelReadingEndSame

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

Travis Barker

GoodGoTwoMilesJustSongs

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

Tommy Lasorda

SportsPathMeStraightNarrowKept

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

Tom Hicks

TopReasonGetNo ReasonRangers

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Tom Holt

PatienceProblemYouFindKnowOut

One of my favorite moments was when me and Jay-Z made a song 'For Rhyme or Reason.' It ended up on 'Reasonable Doubt,' but they switched the beat because we couldn't get clearance from my label.

Mike Dean

MeSongDoubtMomentsReasonBeat

Sloppy casual has always been my default look. My preppier classmates in high school would sometimes sport two, three, even four shirts at a time - Lauren, Izod, Brooks Brothers, all collars-up - while I wore secondhand faded olive German-army fatigues and this cool T-shirt with a troll on it.

Michael Paterniti

TimeSchoolCoolHigh SchoolLook

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

Lou Holtz

LifeManSchoolMy LifeOld ManOld

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by F. Sionil Jose