Emily From Amulet Quotes & Sayings

But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there could never be enough blessings. — Jamaica Kincaid

I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never. — Rosa Parks

The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station. — Alan Shepard

Why can I remember eggplant, when I can't remember my own name?! — Carla Cassidy

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow — Mike Krzyzewski

If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order." — Esa-Pekka Salonen

That's what I think about people in our lives with plane tickets - you've gotta let them go. Let them see what's out there. — Hannah Brencher

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds. — Mireille Guiliano

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. — Anne Rice

In the military it was camouflage for the desert or the winter. And now it's the duck hunting colors - I think it's "real tree." It's comfortable. It's stuff that's made out of comfortable material, OK, and I'm comfortable in it. — Si Robertson

Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world. — Ruth Gruber

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood. — Herman Melville

These ideas could make men shout for rebellion even when it meant they would hang for it. — Alwyn Hamilton

There exist in the world only two great parties; that of those who prefer to live from the produce of their labor or of their property, and that of those who prefer to live on the labor or the property of others. — Charles Dunoyer

How do you measure your value? — Loretta Lynn