Classic Childrens Book Quotes & Sayings

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself. — Jeff Tweedy

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so. — Bill Hybels

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Emergence is popular because it is the junk food of curiosity. You — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press. — Siobhan Fahey

my bonny love, our roof is safe above, our roof is finely tiled, God protect my little child. — Anonymous

To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself of the tyranny of the visual facts upon which he is utterly dependent, a paradox is the only possible tool. And the talisman paradox for unique photography is to work "the mirror with a memory" as if it were a mirage, and the camera is a metamorphosing machine, and the photograph as if it were a metaphor ... . Once freed of the tyranny of surfaces and textures, substance and form [the photographer] can use the same to pursue poetic truth" (Minor White, Newhall, 281). — Minor White

To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things ... — Paula Rego

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it. — R.D. Blackmore

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people. — Avery Brundage

In a very complex world, you can no longer expect everyone to be great at everything. — Gordon Gee

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight. — Gina Greenlee

The night was windy, full of tree sounds. The moon was gone and there was rain, so fine that it was only a tingle on the skin. — Marilynne Robinson