Quotes of: Birds Keyword

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

Bird of Paradise

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

Bird of Paradise

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

Bird of Paradise

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

Birds of Passage

Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?

The Book of Questions

If birds can fend for themselves, it means theirs hope for our tomorrow.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

Barbara Windsor

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

Julius Erving

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

Bibhu Mohapatra

Maybe late afternoon is autumn; summer’s retreat not being archived, but suspended, as the feathered vane of a bird wings its way across the avenue.

The Accidental Cage

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

Hawksong

She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227]

Imperfect Birds