Henry Cisneros quote: "I've been able to live my life, but it's been difficult. The report will have its embarrassing sections because (Barrett) has had 10 years to investigate every aspect of my life, and Lord knows I've made mistakes. I doubt there's many people that could have that kind of scrutiny for a decade and not end up with things that they'd rather not see in print."

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a di...
HENRY CISNEROS

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people
HENRY CISNEROS

One thing that the studies make very clear, ... is that the other cities who are already ahead of us...
HENRY CISNEROS

We know of four Japanese biomedical companies right now that are using San Antonio clinical faciliti...
HENRY CISNEROS

If we are not honored with the games, that might be for the best. We don't want to mix motives here,...
HENRY CISNEROS

This is not a critique, ... but just a recognition that as strong as we think our biotechnology and ...
HENRY CISNEROS

If that can be done in Detroit, it can be done in a lot of American cities.
HENRY CISNEROS

You could argue that an N.F.L. team is less important now. But I'd like to think it would still be a...
HENRY CISNEROS

That's why we have to run faster than the pack in order to close the gap and get ahead -- or be rele...
HENRY CISNEROS

I don't think we have any time to waste.
HENRY CISNEROS

kicking New Orleans while it's down.
HENRY CISNEROS

Antonio is constantly sweeping the horizon for the right answer,
HENRY CISNEROS

The idea is to boost the home-ownership rate, ... Rates for ... newlyweds are (currently) low. We're...
HENRY CISNEROS

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and...
HENRY CISNEROS

The idea of helping revitalize cities with physical projects and them taking the form of housing rea...
HENRY CISNEROS

No one, I'm sure, wants to be perceived as leaving a city in its hardest moment. How that will bear ...
HENRY CISNEROS

I think we'll fill it up.
HENRY CISNEROS

I accept responsibility for the conduct as outlined, ... truth and candor are important.
HENRY CISNEROS

This is not a critique, ... but just a recognition that as strong as we think our biotechnology and ...
HENRY CISNEROS

It's like our moment has arrived. San Antonio seems to have hit the big leagues.
HENRY CISNEROS

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
SANDRA CISNEROS

I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud perio...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was...
SANDRA CISNEROS

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white st...
SANDRA CISNEROS

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from withi...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sab...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a b...
SANDRA CISNEROS

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.
SANDRA CISNEROS

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are th...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. Y...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don'...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me a...
SANDRA CISNEROS

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings...
SANDRA CISNEROS

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.
SANDRA CISNEROS

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselve...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depend...
SANDRA CISNEROS

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presse...
SANDRA CISNEROS

We don't except junk. This is not about getting rid of an old computer. We want usable equipment.
GEORGE CISNEROS

The good stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jo...
SANDRA CISNEROS

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humani...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, n...
SANDRA CISNEROS

In the Bay, whenever I got depressed, I always drove out to the Ocean Beach. Just to sit. And, I don...
CISNEROS SANDRA

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private...
SANDRA CISNEROS

(With) a direct route from a U.S. hub to China, it would just open up a huge pathway to sell our pro...
MARK CISNEROS

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means wa...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Little thorn in my soul, pebble in my shoe, jewel of my life, the passionate doll who has torn my he...
CISNEROS SANDRA

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've eve...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

I am thrilled to be honored by MIPCOM. It is especially gratifying to be recognized for contribution...
GUSTAVO CISNEROS

Our dream was if the kids had computers at home, they could continue learning outside their classroo...
GEORGE CISNEROS

Much of our motivation is based on the fact that so much of governmental services and commercial ser...
GEORGE CISNEROS

I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ...
HENRY BESSEMER

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
HENRY DRUMMOND

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests...
HENRY ROLLINS

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans valu...
BRAD HENRY

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans th...
BRAD HENRY

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
BRAD HENRY

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
BRAD HENRY

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
BRAD HENRY

The status quo is simply unacceptable.
BRAD HENRY

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
BRAD HENRY

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opp...
BRAD HENRY

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we ...
BRAD HENRY

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach thei...
BRAD HENRY

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
BRAD HENRY

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce i...
BRAD HENRY

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
BRAD HENRY

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family ...
BRAD HENRY

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
BRAD HENRY

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
BRAD HENRY

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is...
BRAD HENRY

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abando...
HENRY ROLLINS

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.
HENRY CAVILL

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the e...
BRAD HENRY

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGER

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.
HENRY SAMUELI

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
HENRY ROLLINS

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
HENRY ROLLINS

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentia...
HENRY GIROUX

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor...
PATRICK HENRY

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us o...
HENRY ROLLINS

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. Th...
THIERRY HENRY

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
HENRY SPENCER

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the in...
HENRY GRUNWALD

After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGER

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
HENRY ROLLINS

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and...
HENRY CLOUD

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down,...
HENRY ROLLINS

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, aw...
HENRY MILLER

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ...
PATRICK HENRY

The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRY

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...
PATRICK HENRY

Fear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRY

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY

If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRY

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...
HENRY MILLER

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring...
HENRY VAUGHAN

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
HENRY ROLLINS

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pa...
HENRY ROLLINS

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY

Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...
HENRY ROLLINS

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few ...
HENRY ROLLINS

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed ...
HENRY BESSEMER

Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 ...
HENRY ROLLINS

$250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY

I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY

Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY

This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many st...
HENRY WILLIAMSON

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a batt...
HENRY VILLARD

Today, most believers are segregated and isolated in their church or in their home. If believers acc...
HENRY HON

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS

You are the reason I don't want to die all the time. When I am with you, life is worth living. Tim...
HENRY ROLLINS

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I ...
HENRY SELICK

The world is the mirror of myself dying.
HENRY MILLER

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext...
HENRY MILLER

This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one w...
PATRICK HENRY

There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those in...
PATRICK HENRY

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our ...
PATRICK HENRY

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a pain...
PATRICK HENRY

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? ...
PATRICK HENRY

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
HENRY VAUGHAN

All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold,...
HENRY ROLLINS

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individu...
HENRY BONILLA

A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market disto...
HENRY PAULSON

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, becaus...
HENRY PETROSKI

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with...
HENRY ROLLINS

'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff...
HENRY CAVILL

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days ...
HENRY ROLLINS

The Things that Cause a Quiet Life

My friend, the things that do attain
The happy li...
HENRY HOWARD

We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon ou...
HENRY ROLLINS

Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligati...
HENRY PAULSON

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that ma...
HENRY WADE

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with gree...
HENRY TIMROD

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back ag...
HENRY ROLLINS

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good...
HENRY ROLLINS

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
HENRY ROLLINS

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
HENRY ROLLINS

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...
HENRY ROLLINS

I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
HENRY ROLLINS

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me...
HENRY GRUNWALD

I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that becau...
HENRY ROLLINS

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
HENRY KISSINGER

We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Bl...
HENRY SELICK

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.
HENRY MILLER

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some ...
HENRY ROLLINS

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to...
HENRY ROLLINS

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the ...
HENRY MILLER

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMES

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