We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I don't close myself to the possibility of someplace outside the United States, but it would have to be someplace with an… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
![“[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/470/sandra-cisneros-862_active_thich-nhat-hanh-the-one-that-revolutioni_675085.jpg)
![“[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a46/sandra-cisneros-862_borges_jorge-luis-borges-had-short-stories-and_102630.jpg)
