Miss Rumphius By Barbara Cooney Quotes & Sayings

This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that, somehow you can't be strong. — Bill Maher

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done. — George MacDonald

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. — Joseph Sobran

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored. — Sidney Mohede

New steps. That's what it amounted to. The two of them were learning the steps that would bring them together, a dance that would take them into forever. A dance that could be nothing less than God's plan for their lives. — Karen Kingsbury

I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence. — Dexter Palmer

What's your name, big guy?" Carden asked.
Blue let out something between a bark and a howl that sounded just like," Bluuuue."
"Good boy," Carden said, and gave Blue the dog biscuit. Blue took it in his mouth and crunched it into pieces, eating it bit by bit instead of gobbling.
That's all it took for Lindsey to fall head-over-heels for Blue. His owner wasn't too bad either. — Tracy March

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition. — Al Pacino

The best dreams are the ones we have as children because they're most pure. — Gwendolyn Heasley

'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start. — Barbara Cooney

One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage. — Tim McGraw

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad. — Jose Bergamin

The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis of why we're conscious at all, that it is this relationship at the quantum level as matter evolves into more complex form, including plants and animals and living substance and ourselves, that this area of consciousness as an awareness becomes more and more complex. — Edgar Mitchell

Weather you scream or mime , im going going to those lips with cream. — Albert Malete