Bubbles The Hippo Quotes & Sayings

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books. — Mac Barnett

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim. — John A. Williams

- Obviously, we're hoping that the weather forecasters are wrong, the way they tend to be about ninety-eight percent of the time
A few adults chuckled at that lameness. I remember thinking, hoping, that I would never turn into the kind of person who though weather jokes were funny. — Siobhan Vivian

The shape she loved was a triangle. Always black. Mauma put black triangles on about every quilt she sewed. — Sue Monk Kidd

Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear. — Jeannette Walls

On the other hand, mere critical thinking, without creative and intuitive insights, without the search for new patterns, is sterile and doomed. To solve complex problems in changing circumstances requires the activity of both cerebral hemispheres: the path to the future lies through the corpus callosum. — Carl Sagan

When a man and woman are in love,some decisions and questions are answered in silence. — Mitra June

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other. — William James

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do. — Michael Phelps

We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face. — Michael Chertoff

Only non-judgmental love can set you free - not truth. — Debasish Mridha

May you soar higher and higher, to uphold heavenly blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita