Blanco Quotes

The hardest thing about being an outcast isn’t the love you don’t receive. It’s the love you long to give that nobody wants.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some other place I haven't been to yet.

The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are - very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards.

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life

they hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128