Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Victor Villasenor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Victor Villasenor.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Victor Villaseñor is an American writer, best known for the national bestselling book Rain of Gold. Villaseñor's works are often taught in American schools. He went on to write Thirteen Senses: A Memoir (2001), a continuation of Rain of Gold. His book Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004) describes his life. The author has received awards and endorsements, including an appointment to serve as the founding Steinbeck Chair at Hartnell College and the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, from February 2003 to March 2004.

American - Writer | Born: May 11, 1940

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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.

Victor Villasenor

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.

Victor Villasenor

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!

Victor Villasenor

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

Victor Villasenor

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!

Victor Villasenor

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.

Victor Villasenor

Talking to God was damned good business.

Victor Villasenor

And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete.

Victor Villasenor

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?

Victor Villasenor

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Victor Villasenor

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