Uffish Quotes & Sayings

Give parents the tools to nurture their child in infancy and the result will be a more self-confident and resilient individual for decades to come. It's far less expensive to coach parents to support children than to maintain prisons years later. — Nicholas D. Kristof

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages. — Matt Gonzalez

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property. — Beatrice Rose Roberts

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived. — Scott Turow

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh. — Armando Iannucci

In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good. — Stan Lee

And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. — Lewis Carroll

I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works. — Rebecca Stead

You had to be ready for the sea because, if not, then the sea would be ready for you. — Lane Ashfeldt