"Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety." — Sandra Cisneros
"Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety."
—
Sandra Cisneros
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
57 Quotes by Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros has 57 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for…
-
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took…
-
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
-
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are…
-
I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I…
-
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino'…
-
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer…
-
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
-
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms,…
-
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine…
-
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is…
-
You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love…
See all 57 quotes by Sandra Cisneros »
More Childhood Quotes
This quote is filed under Childhood Quotes,
one of 2,204 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
-
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
-
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
-
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
-
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
-
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
-
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
-
Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
-
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
-
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
-
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
See all 2,204 Childhood Quotes »