Fresno Quotes

Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

The Hell's Angels are very definitely a lower-class phenomenon, but their backgrounds are not necessarily poverty-stricken. Despite some grim moments, their parents seem to have had credit. Most of the outlaws are the sons of people who came to California either just before or during World War II. Many have lost contact with their families, and I have never met an Angel who claimed to have a hometown in any sense that people who use that term might understand it. Terry the Tramp, for instance, is "from" Detroit, Norfolk, Long Island, Los Angeles, Fresno and Sacramento. As a child, he lived all over the country, not in poverty but in total mobility. Like most of the others, he has no roots. He relates entirely to the present, the moment, the action.

Disorder in the house The doors are coming off the hinges The earth will open and swallow up the real estate I just got my paycheck I'm gonna paint the whole town grey Whether it's a night in Paris or a Fresno matinee It's the home of the brave and the land of the free Where the less you know the better off you'll be

That's for me, isn't it? I'm going to Hell." "Don't feel so bad. It beats Fresno.

Everything is changed for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the world has always been full of that loneliness.

Exhausted, hardly knowing what she was doing, she came the last three steps and sat, took the man in her arms, actually held him, gazing out of her smudged eyes down the stairs, back into the morning. She felt wetness against her breast and saw that he was crying again. He hardly breathed but tears came as if being pumped. "I can't help," she whispered, rocking him, "I can't help." It was already too many miles to Fresno.

«Estás bromeando —dijo con tranquilidad—. ¿Esa costa flacucha hizo caer a Andras con una sola flecha de fresno? Maldito, un maldito sí. Lástima que yo no tuviera la flecha en mis manos... podría haberlo matado a él en ese mismo instante. —Capítulo 6, pág 67.

But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take care of my share of the responsibility of making our way in the world as a family. In those days, also, it was unheard of, by us certainly, that to get any help, even from members of our own family, let alone from the government, which would have been disgraceful. Thank God that that kind of folly in thinking is obsolete. There is a temptation to feel, ‘Well, we all made it; why can’t these other poor people make it?’ And, of course, nothing is more than stupid than that attitude. I must confess that I find that attitude among many countrymen of my own who do find themselves taking undue pride in their own sense of ability — of being equal to any situation, and of seeing it through and improving it, and so on. And then, putting that against other people who don’t have that, and thereby implying that the other people are lazy. Not taking into account the whole different structure and identity and a people who have survived for centuries under very harsh conditions and members of a very great culture, and I am talking about the Indians, to begin with, in the Valley — the San Joaquin Valley, in Fresno, in Tulare, and the mountains, and there are many tribes of them, of different kinds, and I am talking about, also, the Mestizos, the mixtures of Mexican, Spaniards with Indians, making the Mexican. And I am talking about any minority which is considered by anybody as being innately of itself indolent. This kind of narrow thinking is a temptation to all sorts of people, and one has to be sympathetic with the people who are wrong, too, you see. It is not enough just to be sympathetic with the people who are belittled; it is necessary to be sympathetic with the people who belittle them. So, in worrying about the persecuted, one is obliged also to worry about the persecutors. I consider that a basic measure of growth.

The sudden introduction of these magic mortgage bonds into the marketplace pushed most every major institutional investor in the world to suddenly become consumed with the desire to lend money to American home borrowers, even if they didn’t know to whom exactly they were lending or how exactly these borrowers were qualifying for their home loans. As a result of this lunatic process, houses in middle- and lower-income neighborhoods from Fresno to the Jersey Shore became jammed full of new home borrowers, millions and millions of them, who in many cases were not equal to the task of making their monthly payments. The situation was tenable so long as housing prices kept rising and these teeming new populations of home borrowers could keep their heads above water, selling or refinancing their way out of trouble if need be. But the instant the arrow began tilting downward, this rapidly expanding death-balloon of phony real estate value inevitably had to—and did—explode.

Fresno Bulldogs: This gang is one of the few California Hispanic gangs not to claim allegiance to the Surenos or Nortenos. Latin Kings: This Chicago-based group consists of more than 160 cliques in 30 states and has as many as 35,000 members. Mara Salvatrucha (or M.S. 13): This violent Hispanic organization has origins in El Salvador. It has roughly 8,000 members in the United States and another 20,000 outside the United States. Bloods: With its roots in Los Angeles, this African American street gang exists in 123 cities and 33 states. Crips: Also founded in Los Angeles, this African American gang exists in 40 states and has 30,000 to 35,000 members. Gangster Disciples: This Chicago-based African American gang is active in at least 31 states and has more than 25,000 members. Vice Lord Nation: This Chicago-based African American gang has around 30,000 members in 28 states.

Su sombra se acortaba sobre las rocas cuando se inclinaba, terminando. ¿Por qué no ilimitadamente hasta la estrella más lejana? Oscuramente están ellos ahí detrás de esta luz, oscuridad brillando en la claridad, delta de Casiopea, mundos. Mi se sienta allá, augur con una vara de fresno y sandalias prestadas, sentado de día al lado de un mar lívido, ignorado, marchando en la noche violeta bajo un reino de estrellas estrambóticas. Arrojo de mí esta sombra terminada, ineluctable forma de hombre, y la llamo de vuelta. Sin límites, ¿sería mía, forma de mi forma? ¿Quién me observa aquí? ¿Quién leerá nunca en parte alguna estas palabras que escribo? Signos sobre un campo blanco. En alguna parte con tu voz más aflautada El buen obispo de Cloyne sacó el velo del templo de su sombrero eclesiástico: velo del espacio con emblemas coloreados bosquejados sobre su campo. Agárrate bien. Coloreados sobre una llanura: sí, así es. La llanura veo, luego pienso distancia, cerca, lejos, llanura veo, el Este, atrás. ¡Ah!, veamos ahora. Cae hacia atrás de repente, helado de estereoscopio. El truco está en el click. Encontráis mis palabras oscuras. La oscuridad está en nuestras almas, ¿no es cierto? Más aflautado. Nuestra alma, heridoavergonzada por nuestros pecados, se aferra cada vez más a nosotros, una mujer aferrándose a su amante, lo más lo más.

By 1906 the number of Armenians in Fresno was about 2,500, and together they farmed about 13,000 acres of land.

This one sounds rather gay. A Fresno, California house burglar rubbed spices over the body of a sleeping man before using an 8 inch long sausage to slap the face of another snoozing resident.  Antonio Vasquez fled but was caught in a nearby field after police found his wallet and ID in the victims’ home.  The sausage was eaten by a dog after Vasquez tossed it away.

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So this is sweet. Some sort of fruit, right? Not just sugar." She nodded. "Mango and peach." He looked surprised. "No kidding." He tasted it again. "Got it. Now that you tell me, I can taste them. What kind of chilies?" "Mostly fresno. A cherry pepper here, a poblano there. A little habanero." She hadn't gotten enough fresnos, so the truth was she just used everything she had. Fortunately she'd written it down. "Some honey too. Seasonings." "But there's something I can't quite put my finger on." He tasted more than looked at his finger and said, "No pun intended." She smiled. "Curry." "Curry." "Yup." She nodded. "I needed something to segue between the sweet and the savory and I thought of curry." "It's incredible." "Wow, you're actually selling me on my own sauce." She upended the bottle and put a few drops on her own finger. It was just as good as she'd remembered, exactly as he'd said, with the heat that snuck up and away. Suddenly her mind reeled with the possibilities. She could use it as the base for a barbecue sauce and start serving pulled pork on the menu. That, with the beer cheese, Aja's cheese soup, and the biscuits Margo had made, she had a theme developing suddenly.

When you’re trying to hold off a hellbeast you better have something bigger than a meatball sub. Especially if it happens to be your only weapon. I mean, this isn’t even a good sandwich. A good meatball sub should be hard to hold. A crunchy, saucy, meat-filled football. This thing is skinny as a ferret. Probably from a chain restaurant in some Fresno mall. Only I don’t go to malls. Or, for that matter, Fresno. And, seriously, the only people who’d buy this crap hate themselves, and I’m merely into self-loathing. The difference is subtle but important.

—No sé, Ariadne... Me cuesta verlos como víctimas. —Eso es porque no los ves, solo los imaginas.

Si volver a verte es un regalo, será porque todo lo que me has dado es honesto. Dime, si un petirrojo canta sobre una rama cercana, ¿te enfadas cuando se marcha? Y, si vuelve, ¿le guardas rencor?

Nadie sabe en qué parte del camino se encuentra, cuando lo transita por primera vez, hasta que alcanza el destino. ¡Es normal dudar y tener miedo durante el trayecto!

Eight years ago, Mexicans picked almost all of the crops in this great valley,” Jack said. “They came across the border, moved into these fields, and picked the crops and moved on. February for peas in Nipomo. June for apricots in Santa Clara. Grapes in August in Fresno, and September here for cotton. They came, they picked, and they returned home for the winter. Invisible to the locals at every stage. Until the Crash of ’29 broke the system and made Californians afraid for their jobs. They feared who Americans always fear: the outsider. So the state cracked down on illegal immigrants and called the Mexicans criminals and deported them. By ’31, the majority of them were gone or in hiding. It would have been a catastrophe for the agriculture business, but then…”—Jack held out his arms—“the Dust Bowl. The drought. The Great Depression. Millions lost their jobs and their homes. You came west, needing jobs, just wanting to put food on your tables and feed your families. You took the Mexicans’ places in the fields. Now, your people make up ninety percent of the pickers. But you don’t want to be unseen, do you? You came to live here, to put down roots, to be Californians.” “We’re Americans!” someone yelled from the crowd. “We got every right to be here!” “Rights,” Jack said, looking out at them. “They matter in America, don’t they?

remained proactive, testing the efficiency of the various hitchhiking configurations available to us: five guys with no visible luggage; two guys hitching and three guys hidden in the bushes; one guy with a guitar case; just Axl and Izzy; just Izzy and me; just Axl and me; just Steven alone, waving and grinning; just Duff alone. Nothing seemed to work; the people of Fresno weren’t having us in any way, shape, or form.

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Ash tree” in Spanish, Fresno is the closest major city to Yosemite National Park.

When you’re trying to hold off a hellbeast you better have something bigger than a meatball sub. Especially if it happens to be your only weapon. I mean, this isn’t even a good sandwich. A good meatball sub should be hard to hold. A crunchy, saucy, meat-filled football. This thing is skinny as a ferret. Probably from a chain restaurant in some Fresno mall. Only I don’t go to malls. Or, for that matter, Fresno. And, seriously, the only people who’d buy this crap hate themselves, and I’m merely into self-loathing. The difference is subtle but important. Anyway, back to the hellbeast.

Fresno, California, sits in the center of the San Joaquin Valley in the middle of the state. “Ash tree” in Spanish, Fresno is the closest major city to Yosemite National Park.

Eight years ago, Mexicans picked almost all of the crops in this great valley,” Jack said. “They came across the border, moved into these fields, and picked the crops and moved on. February for peas in Nipomo. June for apricots in Santa Clara. Grapes in August in Fresno, and September here for cotton. They came, they picked, and they returned home for the winter. Invisible to the locals at every stage. Until the Crash of ’29 broke the system and made Californians afraid for their jobs. They feared who Americans always fear: the outsider. So the state cracked down on illegal immigrants and called the Mexicans criminals and deported them. By ’31, the majority of them were gone or in hiding. It would have been a catastrophe for the agriculture business, but then…”—

Now ‘means’ is how she died, the method. Her throat was slashed with a knife. Blood everywhere. What kind of human would do something so horrible to their mate?” “Precisely, much too messy,” Winston said. “Why not use a gun? Very impersonal. Something simple, like a Smith and Wesson thirty-eight revolver.” “My Fresno human had the Revolver album,” said Meatloaf. “H played it a lot. He said he Beatles explored new ground with their work.” “A gun?” I said. “Too loud. The neighbors would hear and call the cops.” “What about hitting her on the head?” asked Gizmo. “That’s quiet. Messy, maybe - but quiet.” Meatloaf spoke up again. “I been hit with a newspaper, it makes a loud sound. Whack! Right on the butt.” “A crowbar. Silent but deadly.” “Who carries a crowbar? It would be something like a tire iron.” “Or a golf club.” “Everybody around here plays golf.” The pack nodded.

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Era por eso que, aunque Daisy se mofara de las historias de terror que contaban sobre norois, sabía que tenía que salir de casa. Allí, oculta entre lobos y fresnos, podía ser quien era sin miedo a ser demonizada por ello; un privilegio que solo unos pocos tenían. Y ella odiaba a los putos privilegiados.

Amanda, swept up into Michael’s world. He would have been in his thirties, no gray in his hair, with even more swagger and charisma. She was an introverted Fresno girl away from home for the first time. She would have felt so special to have been chosen by this man.

I’d say Fresno is a hidden gem, but I’m not sure how many people would consider it a gem at all.

Fresno is a sprawling city of over half a million people, situated in the middle of two long, straight, boring highways that cut up through the middle of California—the I-5 and the CA-99.

If capitalism is a joke, maybe Fresno is the punch line.

My dad is the kind of guy everyone in town knows. In the Tower District, we have a term for that: “Fresno Famous.

Instead, my idea of home became bigger—stretching from Shaw Avenue to Belmont Avenue sandwiched in between West Avenue and First Avenue, encompassing all of Fresno south of Shaw—and everyone I knew there became a bit like family. —

If everyone I knew was right, the first step on my path to thriving was to make it the fuck out of Fresno.

Everything I learned about survival, I learned from the people around me in Fresno.

Estamos hechos de olmo y fresno, y es nuestra determinación la que nos impulsa a seguir adelante, a sobreponernos a las dificultades y pelear ante las adversidades.

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It turns out if you give money to a broke, scrappy, loudmouth punk kid from Fresno, she wants to use that money to take care of her community in whatever way possible, including getting them into stable housing.

I might be looking for a fight. You can take the girl out of Fresno, but you can’t take the Fresno out of the girl apparently.

The archaeologist James Kus, a retired professor at California State University, Fresno, believes that the Inca site of Machu Picchu may have been chosen, in part, because of the prevalence of mucosal leish. “The Incas were paranoid about leishmaniasis,” he told me. The sand fly that transmits leish can’t live at higher altitudes, but it is widespread in the lowland areas where the Inca grew coca, a sacred crop.

CORAZONES LATIENDO EN UNO Estoy agradecida por la fuerza viviente creativa e infinita Que hay dentro de todo. Nosotros somos belleza siendo continuamente tallada. A veces, doloroso, sin embargo cada corte revela una conciencia más profunda de nuestra magnificencia interior. Llegamos al corazón de la materia dándonos cuenta de que somos más que esta fisicidad. Infinitas partículas encontradas en las estrellas. Fragmentos, radiación de luz, derramándose del sol. Granos de arena soplados por el viento, junto con hojas de hierba y fresno espinoso de nuestra Tierra. Volamos como un águila- remontándonos, y con la noche, llegamos a ser despertados por la luz de la mañana. Gloriosa vida, aquí nos encontramos y aquí, somos Uno mientras nuestros corazones laten.

In the hands of these two experienced scholars, time becomes a tool for helping us understand and better control . . . the way we live our lives.” —Robert V. Levine, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, California State University, Fresno, and author of Journeys in Social Psychology

Sólo después de que florezca el roble, que es el último en primavera, despierta el fresno. Me lo imagino como el pastor de los demás árboles, vigilando que las hojas de todos estén verdes antes de florecer él.

The path is not a straight line but every step takes you closer,’ I said. Wisdom all the way from Fresno, California.

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On September 18, the bank mailed 60,000 Fresno residents a BankAmericard. There was no application process. The card simply arrived in the mailbox, ready to use. Credit card fees for merchants were set at 6 percent and consumers received between $300 and $500 in instant credit. There was a certain brilliance behind the 60,000-person drop: On day 1, cardholders simply existed. This permitted Bank of America to sign up all merchants who didn’t already have proprietary credit card programs. BofA focused on fast-moving, small merchants like Florsheim Shoes, not giants like Sears. More than 300 Fresno merchants signed up.

called her one Saturday morning with a cooking question, and she was on her way to a protest in downtown Fresno. She has had breast cancer and heart problems. I was worried that it wasn’t safe for her to be in a crowd in a pandemic. She told me that racism was deadlier.

Masumi Kimura (her maiden name) was ten years old and living with her parents in Madera, California, when the Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor. More than sixty years later, she still vividly recalled the tension and fear that gripped her family and hometown that December day. Word had quickly spread that all the Buddhist priests at the nearby Fresno Buddhist Temple had been arrested, and white teenagers had shot up the temple’s front door.

One modest example of how the farmers managed to deceive the Bureau was provided by the case of Russell Giffen, one of the big landowners in the Westlands district. A Fresno rancher who stitched together seventy-seven thousand acres of valley property—about seven times the acreage of Manhattan Island—Giffen was the largest cotton grower in the world: nationally, he also ranked just behind Boswell and one other farming company in the combined federal farm subsidies he received. In the 1970s, Giffen decided to clean up his estate for probate, and sold most of the land for $32.5 million.

(A hand-picked Fresno legislator named Ken Maddy once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III.”)

Sandra Cisneros, Richard Vasquez, people like that. I asked Nick if he’d ever read Octavio Prado.” “I’m afraid I don’t know who that is.” “He wrote this book, Lake of the Moon, about growing up in Fresno.

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