Van Allsburg Fritz Quotes & Sayings

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously. — Pras Michel

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing. — Doris Lessing

Don't let others discourage you from writing. Your peers will never see your point of view and they don't have to its your story, your journey; but keep writing and become good enough so that they will notice you as the very thing they tried to steer you from. Being a writer. — K.T. Hunter

At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid. It was really difficult. I was going to study history, but the professor asked me some questions I didn't understand, and I didn't dare to ask what they meant. I left university and went to work in the Post. — Per Petterson

I believe the conditions are very favorable for Mexico to grow. I'm very optimistic. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit. — Ellen G. White

Perspicacious individual I've met in years, you are — Harper Lee

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment. — Paul Tsongas

The parched know --

real thirst
draws rainwater
from an empty sky. — Ivan M. Granger

It was unusual for a girl to be taught how to use weapons. Most believed girls were meant to cook and clean and look after the men. Which was ridiculous. Especially since Lysandra was a natural at this. — Morgan Rhodes

[...] one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success. — Paul Auster

Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years. — Coolio