Shaletha Quotes & Sayings

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone. — Orson Scott Card

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close. — Dave Barry

As Washington, Adams, and Jefferson reached the cusp of adulthood, each exhibited a passion for independence. Each hungered for emancipation from the entanglements of childhood and sought to carve out an autonomous existence. The handmaiden to each young man's zeal for self-mastery was a propulsive ambition that drove him to yearn for more than his father had attained, for more even than his father had ever hoped to achieve. — John Ferling

It is always better to be a bookworm rather than being a dung-beetle! — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

But trying to conjure my mother was like trying to hum a song I'd never heard. — Nadia Hashimi

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others. — Thomas Merton

You're a fighter. Your scars aren't about the rounds you've lost. They're about the ones you walked away from. The ones you survived. — Keri Lake

Be the answer not the question. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Keegan felt nervous as Rourk walked toward her. What should she say? In an instant, he stood in front of her. She felt his fingers trace the side of her face. She looked up into his grey eyes as he leaned down and kissed her.
Keegan had kissed boys before, but she'd never felt anything like this. — Julia Crane

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to. — Srikumar Rao

In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community ... and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self ... — Pope Paul VI

War creates murderers and profiteers. Wherever there is conflict you'll find a man ready to torture, rape and kill in the name of The Cause and to line his pocket with a quick easy buck. — Ken Scott

I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for. — Cassandra Clare