Jean Craighead George Quotes

Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Food
  • Control

• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • World
  • Energy
  • Present

• I love doing kids' films.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Kids
  • Doing
  • Films

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Country
  • Hands

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • World
  • Live
  • Free

• What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • World
  • Against
  • Tour

• It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Crazy

• I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Kids

• Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Time

• I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.

  

  Neale Donald Walsch
  • Life

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• Honestly, what I think set everything off is when I cut my hair off when I was 16 and dyed it blue. After that, I just felt so free and wanted to experiment with my look.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Blue

• Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.

  

  Jean Craighead George
  • World
  • Kids
  • Tree