Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.
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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child
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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
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You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
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Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.
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I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early settlers in the United States, and I was fascinated by those communities and how they grew, how their politics developed, and the actual suffering of those people and the tribulations they went through.
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I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows.
