Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.

Jacqueline Woodson

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• I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

  

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• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

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• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

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• I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

  

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• Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.

  

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• When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

  

  Idris Elba
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• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
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• Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

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• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

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• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

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• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

  

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  • Truth
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• I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

  

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• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
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• I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

  

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• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

  

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• If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.

  

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• If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere – although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

  

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• Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers.

  

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• Young voters may be growing up in an era of increased global connection, cooperation and commerce. But they're very open to politicians who tell them it is these very things that are keeping elites in power and keeping their generation down.

  

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• My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.

  

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• There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Friends
  • Stop
  • Eyes