Quotes of: Paradise Keyword

In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issu...

Robert Kagan

It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

Doom Patrol, Vol. 3: Down Paradise Way

All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can’t hide from it, not even here.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense of place that can inspire a blissful contentment.

Reach for Paradise

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination — through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.

Villains' Paradise: A History of Britain's Underworld

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina