Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a di...
HENRY CISNEROS 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 I've been able to live my life, but it's been difficult. The report will have its embarrassing secti...
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 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