Rigoberta Menchu Quotes

I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

Rigoberta Menchu

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• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Different
  • Athlete
  • Loser

• Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• 'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Heard

• Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Fly

• What is writing but an expression of my own life?

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Own

• War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Government
  • Trouble

• Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • America

• Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Moments

• They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Reality
  • Giving
  • Picture

• I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Up

• I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • World

• We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

  

  Jim Fowler
  • Baseball

• I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Thinking
  • Sun
  • Shining

• Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Believe
  • High
  • Water

• How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.

  

  John Aubrey

• The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.

  

  Connie Sellecca
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Water

• I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

  

  Rigoberta Menchu
  • Water
  • Leave
  • Many