Sybelle Sheppard Quotes & Sayings

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education. — Malorie Blackman

I believe in any religion that puts treating people with respect and dignity above ritual and dogma. — Charles F. Glassman

The time had come to give the rest of the galaxy a look at Darth Vader. — James Luceno

I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization. — Bonnie Bassler

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid. — Mira Grant

I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war — Orson Scott Card

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. — Thomas Fuller

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me. I used to rattle them off easily enough; why is the challenge of writing to friends and acquaintances too much for me now? Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key
as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away. — Saul Bellow

The Librarian looked at his charges approvingly, made his last rounds of the slumbering shelves, and then dragged his blanket underneath his desk, ate a goodnight banana, and fell asleep. — Terry Pratchett