Victor Villasenor Quotes

• The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

  Víctor Villasenor

  Enemigo, Sabe

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• Y le di las gracias a mi papá, que siempre me había dicho que nosotros, los indios, éramos como la mala hierba. Que a las rosas había que regarlas y darles abono o se morían. Pero a las malas hierbas, a las plantas autóctonas, no les dabas nada; diablos, incluso las envenenabas y les ponías hormigón encima, y esas malas hierbas seguían rompiendo el hormigón.

  Víctor Villasenor

  Weed, Water, Rose

  Victor Villasenor (2008). “Burro Genius”, p.21, HarperCollins Español

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• No, you are not to complain or question who you are, but instead, grow, reaching for the light that's inside you.

  Víctor Villasenor

  Light, Complaining, Reaching

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• Hablar con Dios era un negocio condenadamente bueno.

  Víctor Villasenor

  Talking, Good Business, Talking To God

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• Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?

  Víctor Villasenor

  Niños, Corazón, Pensamiento

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• Women have to be careful to not wear out their husbands on their honeymoons, or they get so weak that they can't go to work!

  Víctor Villasenor

  Husband, Weak, Honeymoon

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• And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.

  Víctor Villasenor

  Parent, Miracle, Feelings

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• Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

  Víctor Villasenor

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

  Victor Villaseñor “Rain of Gold”, Arte Publico Press

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• Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.

  Víctor Villasenor

  People, Jaguars, Common

  Victor Villaseñor “Rain of Gold”, Arte Publico Press

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