Beverly Cleary Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's those damn critics again.
-
Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
-
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
-
I always played to win.
-
My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
-
Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
-
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
-
There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
-
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
-
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
-
Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
-
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
-
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
-
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
-
When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
-
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
-
Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'
-
How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
-
'Wicked' has such a wild fan base - like, a voracious fan base.
-
I find that putting my make-up on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show. It kind of helps me make that transition from 'mommy' to 'performer,' or star or whatever you want to call it!
-
I rarely read children's books.
