Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Related She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Without those who tapped into the invisible world, humanity would have remained in the dark and back... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN to the victor go the spoils THE AMERICA What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action... JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou... JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted... JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu... JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying... JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up. AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp... BOB MOAWAD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER There's room for improvement. We got the ball in the hole. Those Kingston players helped us out on d... CALEB KOVACH The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation tha... THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests... THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put... THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they ... MAARTEN SCHAFER No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If we live in a glass bubble then it is always easier for the glass to shatter, it is different if t... GARY F EVANS... Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c... JOHN GREEN You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt... JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ... JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th... JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti... JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, i... JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ... JOHN GREEN
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JACK KINGSTON Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slave... JACK KINGSTON I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as... JACK KINGSTON Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new. JACK KINGSTON Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patroniz... ALEX KINGSTON Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good... JACK KINGSTON Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to ser... JACK KINGSTON I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me ... SEAN KINGSTON I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box. SEAN KINGSTON Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support. 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KAREN KINGSTON Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity.... ALEX KINGSTON I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians. SEAN KINGSTON I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of pers... ALEX KINGSTON I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Sha... ALEX KINGSTON In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by child... ALEX KINGSTON The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it... ALEX KINGSTON Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it... ALEX KINGSTON One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attentio... ALEX KINGSTON Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like the... ALEX KINGSTON I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themse... ALEX KINGSTON There was a lot of discussion in that room about, Will
he advance the conservative agenda? JACK KINGSTON Libby is tripped up over the investigation, not over the crime, and I think that is significant, ...... JACK KINGSTON As somebody who has worked for this language, I think it is good. This is going to help ... by bring... JACK KINGSTON With each soldier that does not come home, there's a family that suffers the most. JACK KINGSTON This is not going to pay for all prescriptions, JACK KINGSTON it's not going to be easy. JACK KINGSTON [Kingston spends much of his time in Washington in meetings with DeLay, and attributed his resilienc... JACK KINGSTON He's held his own, and he's stronger now than he was six months ago. DeLay's detractors have hit him... JACK KINGSTON When the former president came out for Groton and he was standing up against his own home state, I t... JACK KINGSTON They were fighting for survival. We were fighting for 3,300 jobs, so they had more intensity, but I ... 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MAXINE KUMIN This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color.... MAXINE WATERS I stand with this family. I stand on the side of this young man, MAXINE WATERS one of the most un-American things that one can imagine. MAXINE WATERS disrespect and contempt for our community. MAXINE WATERS I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-dep... MAXINE WATERS Every member of this committee should be offended by the ... wild spin that was just put on by Mr. L... MAXINE WATERS This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color.... MAXINE WATERS If you ask a young man in South-Central about the difference between the Democratic and Republican p... MAXINE WATERS How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is. MAXINE WATERS Many of us are guilty of having allowed Tom Bradley to do whatever he has done without really challe... 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