Catch The Moon By Judith Ortiz Cofer Quotes & Sayings

Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying. — Carroll Bryant

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received. — Laozi

He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of the error that the world was flat ... 'And when they discover their mistake, I mean, truly discover it, it'll be as big as when they learned the world was, in fact, round. It'll open up a whole new world. And nothing will ever be the same. — Danzy Senna

When you look at the beautiful sunset, you feel as if you are falling in love. Maybe all over again. — Avijeet Das

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch. — Nick Harkaway

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. — Willy Ley

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about. — Julie Wright

As chapters 5 and 6 will discuss in detail, the identification of liberal democracies with tolerance and of nonliberal regimes with fundamentalism discursively articulates the global moral superiority of the West and legitimates Western violence toward the non-West. That is, the exclusive identification of the West with tolerance, and of tolerance with civilization, makes the West into the broker of the civilized, delimiting what is "intolerable" and therefore legitimate for imperial conquest cloaked as liberation. — Wendy Brown

I've had some weird experiences. — David Bailey

There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them. — Cornell Woolrich

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives! — Deb Caletti