Award Winning Childrens Books Quotes & Sayings

The common approach is, metaphorically speaking, to go out onto the sidewalk and to pick up all the banana skins, so that no one slips. Me, I go down early in the morning and drop more banana skins. People say, 'Well, why would you be doing that?' And I tell them, 'Teaching is not about trying to prevent people from falling down, it's about trying to get them to use their eyes.' If you take the banana skins away, you're saying that life is banana-skin free. Well, it is not. Life is full of banana skins.
I try to teach people to use their eyes, to look where they're stepping. It's my responsibility to respect people, to help them learn the lessons life teaches. When you slip on a banana skin and fall down, discuss what happened and learn from it. I think that it is actually unwise to get in between people and what life is trying to teach them, but we all have a responsibility for each other. — Johann Christoph Arnold

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them. — Karen O

If speed one day kills me, don't be sad because I was smiling — Paul Walker

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world. — Malcolm Gladwell

I want to take it easy, take it slow
To catch a fire and let it go
I wanna give myself to you
So we can live like lovers do — Heather Nova

I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face. — J.D. Salinger

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear. — Catherine Sanderson

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world. — Robert Greene

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat — Helen Van Slyke

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness. — George Washington

People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs. — Girl Talk