Grace > Grace's Quotes

“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more civilized than the finely bred..for there is no demographic that has a sharper instinct for empathy than the downtrodden.”
― Ken Ilgunas

“They privatize the profits and socialize the losses, so whichever way the wheel spins, they win." Quote from a millionaire Wall-Streeter in Hitchhiking with Larry David by Paul Samule Dolman.”
― Paul Samuel Dolman

“Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.”
― Jen Lin-Liu, On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta

“Wonderful," he said. "Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?"
"Oh, I favors 'em all," Pa said. "But I mostly like Hezekiel, Ahab, Trotter, and Pontiff the Emperor."
The Old Man frowned. "I don't recollect I have read those," he said.”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

“What really makes you alive is love.”
― Harrison Scott Key, The World's Largest Man

“You have to survive and think about the future of your life, that life is beautiful!
Salvador Alvarenga”
― Franklin, Jonathan