Gladys Munoz Alabanzas Quotes

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to. ~ Gladys Knight

There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of what I do. I started with classical, then country, then blues, and after that I started listening heavily to Motown and gospel. My earliest efforts as a songwriter were soul. Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight, James Brown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Fontella Bass are just a few of the names that come to mind as the God's of soul and Motown. ~ Rory Block

Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.' ~ Gladys Knight

April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself ... ~ Gladys Hasty Carroll

When my own mother died, there seemed to me to be no answer to anything. For a time the only universality was death. And then I remember walking in the dusk along the quiet little street toward the house now so empty and meaningless. There was light enough from the sky to cast the lattice shadow of leaves on the walk. The sound of the river was steady and swift, and the air smelled of sulphur from the mills beyond it. As I looked up, a delicate petal of moon drifted into the tender blue, and all at once I thought, How beautiful God made the world! How wonderful that the stars still shine! And I was comforted. ~ Gladys Taber

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it. ~ Gladys Knight

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air. ~ Gladys Taber

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery. ~ Antonio Munoz Molina

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality. ~ Gladys Taber

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals. ~ Beatrice Lillie

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them. ~ Gladys Taber

Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing. ~ Pam Munoz Ryan

Indian summer comes gently, folds over the hills and valleys as softly as the fall of a leaf on a windless day. It is always unexpected. After a sharp cold spell, we wake one morning and look out and the very air is golden. The sky has a delicate dreamy color, and the yet unfallen leaves on the bravest trees have a secure look, as if they would never, never fall. ~ Gladys Taber

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life. ~ Gladys Knight

Nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too! ~ Gladys Taber

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back. ~ Brenda Holloway

As their shoulders touched, the riverboat was no longer earthbound. With only the two of them aboard, it lifted into the sky, navigating a sea of white billows. The boy was the figurehead beneath the bowsprit, eyes searching for the way. Neftali was the paddle wheel, moving them forward as one ancient spirit. ~ Pam Munoz Ryan

Hortensia set the tray down and brought a shawl and wrapped it protectively around Mama's shoulders. Esperanza couldn't remember a time when Hortensia had not taken care of them. She was a Zapotec Indian from Oaxaca, with a short, solid figure and blue-black hair in a braid down her back. Esperanza watched the two women look out into the dark and couldn't help but think that Hortensia was almost the opposite of Mama. ~ Pam Munoz Ryan

When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change? ~ Luis Munoz Marin

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond. ~ Mark Munoz

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. ~ Antonio Munoz Molina

I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China ... I don't know who it was ... it must have been a man ... a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing ... and God looked down ... and saw Gladys Aylward ... and God said, 'Well, she's willing.' ~ Gladys Aylward

I hate all men associated with stealing children,selling & sleeping with children. ~ Gladys Lawson

Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead. ~ Gladys Taber

But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook - that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table. ~ Gladys Taber

How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life! ~ Pam Munoz Ryan

Sorry, old girl," I said to [my bicycle] Gladys in the gray dishwater light of early morning, "but I have to leave you at home."
I could see that she was disappointed, even though she managed to put on a brave face.
"I need you to stay here as a decoy," I whispered. "When they see you leaning against the greenhouse, they'll think I'm still in bed."
Gladys brightened considerably at the thought of a conspiracy. [ ... ]
At the corner of the garden, I turned, and mouthed the words, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do," and Gladys signaled that she wouldn't.
I was off like a shot. ~ Alan Bradley

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new. ~ Antonio Munoz Molina

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. ~ Antonio Munoz Molina

Which is sharper? The hatchet that cuts down dreams? Or the scythe that clears a path for another? ~ Pam Munoz Ryan

I've been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again. ~ Gladys Lawson

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity. ~ Gladys Knight

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper. ~ Gladys Taber

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise. ~ Gladys Taber

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate. ~ Antonio Munoz Molina

Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night. ~ Rosabetty Munoz

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts. ~ Gladys Taber

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart. ~ Gladys Taber

Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand. ~ Pam Munoz Ryan

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits. ~ Elton John

I don't Need a perfect One, I just Need a simple One, that can make me Feel I'm the ONLY One.:-) ~ Gladys Silva

The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past. ~ Gladys Hasty Carroll

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over. ~ Gladys Taber

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness. ~ Gladys Taber