Jean Craighead George Quotes
Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.
Quotes to Explore
-
Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
-
It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
-
Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
-
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
-
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
-
What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
-
General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
-
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
-
I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
-
My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
-
Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
-
It's human nature to want to be with other people.
-
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
-
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
-
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
-
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
-
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
-
I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
-
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.
-
If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.
-
Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.
-
One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.
-
I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.
-
Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.
