Birdwell Shorts Quotes & Sayings

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons. — John Robbins

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it. — Jason Marsden

Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross. — John Hodgman

When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world? — Oprah Winfrey

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story. — Elmore Leonard

13 Then if our hearts have been hardened, yea, if we have hardened our hearts against the word, insomuch that it has not been found in us, then will our state be awful, for then we shall be condemned. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Let us rise early and fast, or breakfast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry-determined to make a day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? — Henry David Thoreau

The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants. — Laurent A. Daloz

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep. — George Pelecanos

But as attractive as a tropical island alone with Eve might be, Beckett knew he could never go. He couldn't be that far from his brothers. What if one of them needed him? What if Eve's dad needed her? Family was family. — Debra Anastasia