Beverly Cleary Quotes

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

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• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Children
  • Aim
  • Consistency

• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Believe
  • Sustainability

• Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

  

  Lara St. John
  • American
  • Player
  • Green

• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Summer
  • Interested

• Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • Person
  • Certainly

• There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • World
  • Music
  • History

• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Find
  • Where

• For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • World
  • Art
  • Science

• It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Great
  • American
  • Strength

• I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Life
  • Nice

• I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Little

• My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!

  

  Anne Reid
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.

  

  David Walker
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Father

• When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father